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Defining an 'rgrep' function
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Defining an 'rgrep' function
- From: "Eric M. Monsler" <emonsler at beamreachnetworks dot com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 11:01:10 -0800
Hi,
I am trying to define a recursive grep function, rgrep.
On Solaris, I use:
function rgrep { find . -name "*.[ch]" -type f -exec egrep -n "$1" {}
/dev/null \; }
Under cygwin, that is not parsed correctly. I suspected that it was due
to the "\" character, so I tried:
function rgrep { find . -name "*.[ch]" -type f -exec egrep -n "$1" {}
/dev/null ; }
The above seemed to be parsed correctly, but doing "rgrep foo" returned
the error message:
find: missing argument to `-exec`
So, there are two questions that come to mind:
1) How do I modify the function definition in bash/cygwin, so that "\;"
is interpreted as it is on Solaris?
2) Does anyone have a working rgrep function I an just steal, and remain
ignorant? :)
Eric M. Monsler
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