Re: recursive search using grep and find

On 1/10/2012 8:33 AM, Weiyu Yi wrote:
> 
> I have just installed gnuutils(find and grep) in my winxp(32) system.
> 
> when I try to find some files containing some certain string
> recursively, something strange happens
> 
> i.e. grep -l 'something' -R *

If you're using the WinXP command shell, this should be:

grep -rl "something" *.*

If you're using PowerShell, bash or zsh, it should be:

grep -rl 'something' *

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Charles Calvert


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