On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:50, Jacob Fugal wrote: > Ashley Oviatt wrote: > > grep substr -H -r *html > > So is -H the same as -l? I use -l so it just tells me the file, rather > than the matching lines. If it is the same, and we ignore the subtelties > of the ., then what you've got is just like my: > > grep -lr substr *html > > The problem I have with that one is that the *html is expanded by the > shell before being passed to grep, so it is, in effect, > > grep -lr substr file1.html file2_html file.3.html ... > > So grep happily ignores subdir/ and all its contents since they weren't > specified as sources.
I dug this up in the man page: grep -r --include=*html substr * I tested it out, and it works beautifully.
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