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From: "Wai-Yip Tung \(wtung\)" <wtung AT cisco DOT com>
To: "'Max Bowsher'" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: grep -r *.java doesn't work as expected
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:39:48 -0800
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Thank you for all suggestions. I got it works now. I'm new to bash and
the * expansoin by bash kind of surprise me.

Wai-yip

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 8:27 AM
To: wtung AT cisco DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: grep -r *.java doesn't work as expected


Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote:
> I try to grep all .java file recursively
>
> [/q/Workflow/AppAdmin/src/com/cisco/wf/admin] $ grep -rn systemRsrc 
> *.java
>
> Only files in the current directory is searched.
> What's wrong?

Nothing. This is the expected behaviour.
The shell expands *.java, and then runs grep -rn file1.java file2.java
file3.java - none of which are directories, so grep can't recurse into
them.

Try:
find -name '*.java' | xargs grep -n systemRsrc

Max.


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