Re: Fw: grep recursive problem

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

dan1 <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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. 

You're about the 100th person to report this here, and the 100th
person to be quite wrong about this being a bug.  This is actually
exactly the expected behaviour.  You misunderstand how Unix shells
parse command lines with wildcarded arguments like *.php.  For starters,
predict what 
        
        echo *.php

will print in each of those directories, and then try what actually
happens.

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