Hi Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Monday, June 14, 2004 9:47 AM:
> I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files. > > From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to > show itself : > > C:\temp>type test.txt > text > > C:\temp>grep test test.txt > text > > C:\temp>grep text *.txt > test.txt:text > > C:\temp>grep text \temp\test.txt > text I don't know, why this works, but you may have created this file ("temptest.txt") by chance ... > C:\temp>grep text \temp\*.txt > GREP: temp*.txt: No such file or directory grep is right. You have no file "temp*.txt" in your current directory > C:\temp>grep text ..\temp\*.txt > GREP: ..temp*.txt: No such file or directory grep is right. You have no file "..temp*.txt" in your current directory > C:\temp>grep text c:\temp\*.txt > GREP: c:\temp\*.txt: No such file or directory grep is right. You have no file "C:temp*.txt" in your current directory (assuming you're on C:) > C:\temp>grep text ../temp/*.txt > ../temp/test.txt:hello > > C:\temp>grep text /temp/*.txt > GREP: /temp/*.txt: No such file or directory grep is right. You have no file "C:/cygwin/temp/test.txt" (assuming C:/cygwin is your root -- set as default) > C:\temp>grep text c:/temp/*.txt > c:/temp/test.txt:text > > I have upgraded to latest release of Cygwin and this has not > changed things. I have tried the above on a Windows 98 and > Windows XP system as well - same results. > > Any ideas how I get around this problem ? Learn the syntax. Backslashes have to be escaped by a backslash ;-) -- Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/