Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020802164940.02034228@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:54:06 -0700 To: "Cliff Hones" , From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Easy, quick, BASH question In-Reply-To: <002c01c23a7e$893a8800$0101a8c0@albion> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020802162547.035e9a58@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cliff, Yes, it's off-topic, but I see no reason to simply send people away for that reason when I have information that might be useful. As to the "find" part being unnecessary, you don't know that. I assume the reason Kevin originally included the "find" in his attempt is that he wanted to grep in files (of the stipulated name patterns) in the current directory or anywhere beneath it. What you're suggesting will find only those files in the current directory. It's also possible to use grep's (GNU grep's) -R option in combination with the "--include" argument to select files with the proper name pattern. In this case, this is probably the best way to go in terms of overhead and almost certainly will yield the best net performance. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 16:44 2002-08-02, Cliff Hones wrote: > >... > > To get anything more complicated, you must use a shell procedure. E.g.: > > > > hcgrep() { > > grep -n "$@" $(find -name '*.[ch]') > > } > > > >... > >In this particular example, find isn't necessary. Try: > > hcgrep() { grep -n "$@" *.c *.h"; } > >BTW, this is really OT for this list, since it's a Bash question and not >Cygwin-specific. > >-- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/