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| Date: | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:20:27 +0200 (IST) |
| From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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| To: | Nino Matassa <nino AT iolfree DOT ie> |
| cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
| Subject: | Re: Is it possible to search subdirectories from the command line.... |
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Nino Matassa wrote: > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> > <html> Please don't post in HTML. > Is it possible to search subdirectories from the command line such as...: > application *.cpp *.h > which will generate in **argv all my *.cpp & *.h files in that directory. > But what I really > need to do is to search subdirectories too. Try this: application .../*.cpp (that's 3 dots before the slash). This is in the FAQ, btw: see section 16.1 there. > If it doesn't do you know if I can access the "wildcard" functionality > from within my application The function which expands wildcards is called `glob'. Look it up in the library docs.
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