On Jul 15, 4:20 pm, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > probably the easiest thing to do is write up a little wrapper for grep > like so: > #!/bin/sh > if [ -z $1 ] ; then > echo "please enter file type" > exit 1 > fi > > if [ -z $2 ] ; then > echo "please enter search pattern" > exit 1 > fi > > for FILE in `find . -type f -name "*$1" -exec grep -il $2 {} \; ` ; do > > echo " " ; echo "**" ; echo $FILE > > grep --color -i $2 $FILE >
Wow. That's a whole education in bash scripting. I think it will work. It chokes on directories with spaces in them, but that's because I haven't renamed all the dirs I copied over from Windows yet. I will. Thank you. rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]