On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:08 AM, AngusC <> wrote: > > If I use the command: > > grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.* > > I get results back as expected > > But if the file pattern is like this: > > grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log > > I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern > with .log file extension). > > Am I doing something wrong? > -- The first one works because *.* will match everything your current directory, including sub-directories and it will recurse through each of them. The second example will first match anything in your current directory with a .log extension and try to grep it (if it's a file) or recurse through it if it's a directory.
What I believe you want to do (at least works on Linux) is grep -nH -r "my pattern" --include "*.log" . Sean -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple