On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 19:12 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > > Yep youthinks right. The problem is in the glob expansion rather than > grep then because the first recipe does find the .file for me too. Hm > that makes a lot of sense because I noticed this when I saw grep was not > descending into ~/.blah/ when given > > cd ~ > grep stuff * -R > > of course > > echo * > > doesn't show .files either. See the "dotglob" option in the bash manpage. > > > My favorite.. > > > > find . -print | xargs grep -i <string> > > > > Slower, but in my experince, pretty bulletproof. Yep - this is my favourite also. Cheers, Ben
