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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 11:01:10 -0800
From: "Eric M. Monsler" <emonsler AT beamreachnetworks DOT com>
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Subject: Defining an 'rgrep' function
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Hi,

I am trying to define a recursive grep function, rgrep.

On Solaris, I use:

function rgrep { find . -name "*.[ch]" -type f -exec egrep -n "$1" {}
/dev/null \; }

Under cygwin, that is not parsed correctly.  I suspected that it was due
to the "\" character, so I tried:

function rgrep { find . -name "*.[ch]" -type f -exec egrep -n "$1" {}
/dev/null ; }

The above seemed to be parsed correctly, but doing "rgrep foo" returned
the error message:

find: missing argument to `-exec`


So, there are two questions that come to mind:

1) How do I modify the function definition in bash/cygwin, so that "\;"
is interpreted as it is on Solaris?

2) Does anyone have a working rgrep function I an just steal, and remain
ignorant? :)


Eric M. Monsler

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