grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

[Gareth Pearce]

>Ok, I can live with that.  For my understanding, what
>does the -R expand then?  I had visualized that -R
>with grep was simular to ls -R.  Where ls -R magically
>displays all files with out having to specify a search
>path.  So I was thinking that grep -R magically
>searched all the files without having to specify a
>search path, and the *.vb* was the file designation.

ls -R works identically as grep -R ...

the ls command merely 'defaults' to . if no file is given - where as grep 
defaults to 'stdin' .

try ls -R *.vb* - you will see it gives you nothing as well.

>
>However, the conclusion I'm coming to is that the
>[FILE] of "Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE] ..."
>is really a directory _and_ file pattern.

-R means 'recurse any directories in the input set.'
when the input set is *.vb* - theres no directories - so no recursion 
occurs.

Gareth - idly ponders why the grep he installed himself on this dec machine 
doesnt have --include.

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