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From: "Ajith Kumar" <ajithkumar DOT r AT tallysolutions DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Wildcard problem with recursion
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:28:53 +0530
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I run these from the win2k cmd.exe and not from the bash prompt. Can u be
more specific please to which doc or man pages I shold refer to?
Thank You
Regards,
ajith

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
Of Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:44 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Wildcard problem with recursion


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'.

Corinna

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