On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:30:26 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Can anyone explain this to me? > > $ /bin/grep -r hmenu *html > index.html: <div id="hmenu"> > master.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pictures.html: <div id="hmenu">
The star is evaluated /before/ grep is executed. Therefore, only files that are ending with html are searched recursively. If you had placed the files in a directory called blablahtml, then grep would have searched there. > $ /bin/grep -r hmenu pages/*html > pages/community.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pages/contacts.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pages/history.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pages/music.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pages/news.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pages/people.html: <div id="hmenu"> > pages/pictures.html: <div id="hmenu"> > > Grep is clearly disobeying the recursion command. I started noticing this a > few days ago, and it's making maintenance of this directory hard work. No, you just did not tell it to search in the the directory pages. :) HTH Patrick
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