Re: grep.... I know I am new to ubuntu but....

Tried that, first one I tried, *.c is not a file or directory...
despite the fact there are around 200 *,c files in directories below the one I am in.

Maybe its just an ubuntu thing

----- Original Message -----
From: lina <[email protected]>
To: DAVE HITCHMAN <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:14:27 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: grep.... I know I am new to ubuntu but....

grep -l "yourstring" *.c

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:45 PM, DAVE HITCHMAN <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a directory structure, inside that are a number of .c source files. I want to find which of those files contain certain strings.
> In a DOS window using grep I would type
> grep "mystring" -i *.c
> this would result in a list of .c files containing the string.
>
> If I try similar strings with ubuntu even with ack-grep which is supposed to be an improvement I keep getting told that *.c no such file or directory.
>
> Even trying the various bizarre combinations of finds and execs that I have seen on the web I can't seem to do this very simple task. If Microsoft can have managed to provide find in files and various other similar things for over 20 years isn't it time I could do the same on a linux system without the need to spend 10 hours searching endless uninformative websites all lying about what works?