problem using recursive grep (-r option)

[marco atzeri]

On 8/7/2012 5:08 PM, AngusC wrote:
>
> If I use the command:
>
> grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.*
>
> I get results back as expected
>
> But if the file pattern is like this:
>
> grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log
>
> I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern
> with .log file extension).
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>

in the second case the "-r" is looking for *.log
file or directories and I guess the directory does not match.

Try

find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \;

Regards
Marco

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