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Why would I use find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \; 
which is much longer to type when I can use grep ... -r ???



marco atzeri-4 wrote:
> 
> On 8/7/2012 5:08 PM, AngusC wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
> 
> in the second case the "-r" is looking for *.log
> file or directories and I guess the directory does not match.
> 
> Try
> 
> find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \;
> 
> Regards
> Marco
> 
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