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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:55:57 -0400
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Subject: Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)
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On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:08 AM, 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?
> --
The first one works because *.* will match everything your current directory,
including sub-directories and it will recurse through each of them.  The
second example will first match anything in your current directory with a .log
extension and try to grep it (if it's a file) or recurse through it if
it's a directory.

What I believe you want to do (at least works on Linux) is
grep -nH -r "my pattern" --include "*.log" .

Sean

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