Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
content-class:	urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	RE: Easy, quick, BASH question
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0
Date:	Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:20:34 -0400
Message-ID:	<BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E10AA81@ex02.idirect.net>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
From:	"Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
To:	"Barnhart, Kevin" <Kevin DOT Barnhart AT echostar DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
X-MIME-Autoconverted:	from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g72MKej32727

I don't know how to pass parameters to an alias.  What about:

hcgrep() { find . -iname "*.[ch]" -exec egrep -n $1 {} \;; }

or 

hcgrep() { find . -iname "*.[ch]" | xargs egrep -n $1; }

Also, consider installing and using 'ctags'.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barnhart, Kevin [mailto:Kevin DOT Barnhart AT echostar DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:04 PM
> To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: Easy, quick, BASH question
> 
> 
> I'm trying to setup an alias for grep that recursively looks 
> through all .c
> and .h files for a string.  So far I've tried variations of:
> 
> alias hcgrep='grep -n "$*" $(find . -name '*.[ch]')'
> 
> There's probably just one little thing I'm missing...
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> 
> 

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -