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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:01:59 +0100
From: Andy Rushton <ajr1 AT ecs DOT soton DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Wildcard problem with recursion
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
>  
>
>>Cygwin utilities like grep or ls with -R options doesn't seem to be working.
>>egs when I say
>>    
>>
>>>grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING  *.h??
>>>      
>>>
>>I get
>>grep: *.hpp: No such file or directory
>>
>>However there are many .h, .hxx and .hpp files in the subdirectories
>>
>>ls also gives the same err.
>>
>>Any solutons?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, read the shell man pages to learn how file completion works.
>What you want is a job for `find | xargs grep'.
>  
>
Thanks for the xargs tip Corinna - thats a new one on me.

an alternative (talking to original poster here) is:

grep FLD_DCT_STRING `find . -name '*.h??'`

Or you can search *directories* recursively with grep, but this doesn't 
allow you to filter the file type. e.g.:

grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING .

where '.' is the current directory - this will search all files in 
subdirectories too. See 'info grep'.

Andy
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