X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50213AE5.5010206@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:57:25 +0200 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option) References: <34266659 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <34266659.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 8/7/2012 5:08 PM, AngusC wrote: > > If I use the command: > > grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.* > > I get results back as expected > > But if the file pattern is like this: > > grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log > > I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern > with .log file extension). > > Am I doing something wrong? > in the second case the "-r" is looking for *.log file or directories and I guess the directory does not match. Try find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \; Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple