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Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)


On 8/7/2012 7:15 PM, AngusC wrote:


do not top post



Why would I use find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \;
which is much longer to type when I can use grep ... -r ???

because it works ?




But if the file pattern is like this:


grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log

I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this
pattern
with .log file extension).


and this not.




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