Re: Fw: grep recursive problem

[Dan Hipschman]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:04:26PM +0200, dan1 wrote:
> I am trying to find text in some files and it works fine when I type the 
> following command from inside the directory where the file contains the text 
> searched for:
> grep -r -i i80word *.php
> 
> However if I go one directory up and type the same command, there is no 
> result at all, like if the '-r' otion would not be taken into account. I 
> tried --recursive but the result is the same.

Does the name of the directory also end in .php so that *.php matches it?