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Re: Fw: grep recursive problem
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Fw: grep recursive problem |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:25:31 +0200 |
> From: "dan1" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:04:26 +0200
>
> 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.
This is a misunderstanding of what --recursive does. Here's the
correct command that will do what you want:
grep -r -i i80word * --include="*.php"
Re: Fw: grep recursive problem,
Eli Zaretskii <=