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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:14:19 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Wildcard problem with recursion
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
> Cygwin utilities like grep or ls with -R options doesn't seem to be working.
> egs when I say
> >grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING  *.h??
> I get
> grep: *.hpp: No such file or directory
> 
> However there are many .h, .hxx and .hpp files in the subdirectories
> 
> ls also gives the same err.
> 
> Any solutons?

Yes, read the shell man pages to learn how file completion works.
What you want is a job for `find | xargs grep'.

Corinna

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