Re: bug in fgrep from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

[Chuck Swiger]

Jack Thompson wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply.  My ESP is quite limited, so I better just
> paste my command ...
>
> fgrep -r "def" *.py
[ ... ]
> When I work on UNIX systems, I usually just use find and pipe the files
> through grep - maybe I'm not using fgrep right????

You can't combine shell expansion of the asterisk with -r, because -r wants the 
names of directories, whereas the "*.py" matches only Python files.

Consider the following:

        fgrep -r "def" .
        fgrep "def" *.py */*.py */*/*.py
        fgrep "def" **/*.py           # this depends on your shell
        find . -name "*.py" | xargs fgrep "def"
        find . -name "*.py" -print0 | xargs -0 fgrep "def"

--
-Chuck