X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <24360027.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT) From: km4hr To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work? In-Reply-To: <24359078.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <24359078.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Oops, my bad. I forgot about xargs. No wonder I couldn't get it to work. Glad I asked anyway. I learned a some useful stuff, especially "grep -r". thanks! km4hr wrote: > > Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way? > > Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin? > > find .|grep "hello" > > I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word "hello" is > in some files. > > What I want this command to do is find all files in all sub-directories > and pipe the output to grep. Grep then looks in each file for the word > "hello". The names of files that contain the word "hello" should be > returned. > > thanks. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-doesn%27t-%22find-.%7Cgrep-aword%22-work--tp24359078p24360027.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple