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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:46:28 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: grep -r on win98
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At 09:17 PM 3/11/2002, Subrata Datta wrote:
>sorry if this was discussed before. I could not find any hint on faq
>and on the archive.
>
>" grep -r xyz *"  cannot recurse directories on win89. 
>  what could be wrong..


Can't say with the information provided.  Try running it under strace and 
send the results to the list.  Make sure you include enough context so that
someone looking at the results can determine if and where things go wrong.



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