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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:08:32 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject:	problem using recursive grep (-r option)
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If I use the command:

grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.*

I get results back as expected

But if the file pattern is like this:

grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log

I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern
with .log file extension).

Am I doing something wrong?
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