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Re: Excluding files with grep
From: |
Tony Abou-Assaleh |
Subject: |
Re: Excluding files with grep |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:49:06 -0400 (AST) |
> So, and when I display the Unix Utils Grep Help. it shows:
> Turbo GREP Version 1.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 1989 Borland International
> Syntax: GREP [-rlcnvidzuwo] searchstring file[s]
The grep that you are using is "Turbo GREP" and not "GNU grep". I
recommend that you download and install "GNU grep" because it has many
additional extensions that are not available in Turbo GREP.
> So, and i try to call "grep -rHc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry" and it shows
> this answer:
> Error: Invalid option -H
I am not sure about the behaviour of Turbo GREP, but GNU grep
automatically prints the file names if you are grepping multiple files.
Try:
grep -rc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry
(i.e., without -H) and see if it give the desired output, which should be
file names and the number of matches.
you can also try:
grep -rc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry/*.*
Cheers,
TAA
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