Re: GREP

[Bryan Swann <swann nosc mil>]

Actually, I think the guy mentioned he was using the MKS toolkit, which I
believe is a UNIX emulation running on a DOS machine.  So, the "." is
probably still significant.  Obviously, the "." is useless to us
UNIX weenies.

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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:

> Walter Brandt wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.  I hope someone here can help me.  I am still a newbie to Linux
> > (well,
> > in fact - Unix full stop).  My question is hopefully simple to answer.
> > 
> > Can someone please give me the command to search subdirectories for
> > the
> > occurrence of text within some files.  I can search all the files in a
> > single directory, just not in subdirectories.
> > 
> > eg.
> > grep -r *.* sometext
> 
> Walter,
> 
> 	Hey I just wanted to point something out, being as all these guys
> pretty much handled it.  You must be coming from a DOS based platform,
> and I wanted to tell you,  periods '.' are no longer a requirement of a
> filename. If you put '*.*' it will look for anyfile with a period in it,
> not all files.  (The search capabilities of Unix's far outweigh that of
> DOS) in fact, if you copy a file, like: 
> 'cp /etc/hosts \*\*\*' you will have a file named '***'. *laugh* Anyway
> if you put a '\' before a char, it typically means that absolute
> character..  Anyway have fun.
> 
> js
> 
> 
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