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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: grep -r *.java doesn't work as expected
Date:	Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:26:30 -0000
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Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote:
> I try to grep all .java file recursively
>
> [/q/Workflow/AppAdmin/src/com/cisco/wf/admin] $ grep -rn systemRsrc
> *.java
>
> Only files in the current directory is searched.
> What's wrong?

Nothing. This is the expected behaviour.
The shell expands *.java, and then runs grep -rn file1.java file2.java
file3.java - none of which are directories, so grep can't recurse into them.

Try:
find -name '*.java' | xargs grep -n systemRsrc

Max.


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