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From: "Stephen C. Biggs" <s_c_biggs AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:11:01 -0700
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Subject: Re: Easy, quick, BASH question
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$ function hcgrep()(find "$PWD" -name "*.[ch]" -type f -exec grep -n -H "$*" {} \;)

$ hcgrep include 

... works. 

According to the "man" page for bash, alias does not take arguments. 

On 2 Aug 2002 at 16:04, Barnhart, Kevin wrote: 

> I'm trying to setup an alias for grep that recursively looks through all .c
> and .h files for a string.  So far I've tried variations of:
> 
> alias hcgrep='grep -n "$*" $(find . -name '*.[ch]')'
> 
> There's probably just one little thing I'm missing...
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
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