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From:	Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spocom DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)
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On 2012-08-08, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 11:11 AM, AngusC wrote:
> >
> DO NOT TOP POST !
> 
> >I did try the --include way but in Cygwin it didn't work for some reason.

Both of these work fine for me in Cygwin (on Windows XP):

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

> >Neither does
> >
> >find "." -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" {} \;

as does that

> 
> find "." -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \;

and that.

The quoting of . and {} is not needed.

Perhaps the real problem is with "my pattern".

Regards,
Gary


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