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Re: Newbie can't get gnu grep to produce results
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Newbie can't get gnu grep to produce results |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:39:05 +0200 |
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RichardL <RichardDummyMailbox58407@USComputerGurus.com> writes:
> K:\Temp\GnuTest>grep -l -i 'hello' *.txt
I know not much of MS-DOS and even less of MS-Windows, but ISTR that
the * is not expanded by COMMAND.COM. grep finds no file named
'*.txt' so it prints nothing, which is as documented.
Try:
grep -l -i hello song.txt HelloWorld.txt
If that works, then download http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
install cygwin, and use bash as shell instead of COMMAND.COM.
Unix shells do expand characters such as * themselves.
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