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Re: [LUG] grep and dreadful command line skills

 

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 17:39 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> Although grep these days has been bloated with it's own directory 
> recursion and filename globbing, which is utterly pointless IMO when the 
> tools to do this already existed, but newbie command-line weenies couldn't 
> be bothered to learn them </rant>, but there you are:
> 
>    grep -l -r --include='*.yaml' Transition .
> 
> might work for you too.
> 
> Gordon
> 
if I do "grep Transition *.yaml" I get

simon@frog2:~/.alexandria/My Library$ grep Transition *.yaml
grep: invalid option -- '.'
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.

but I've not tried the above yet.

OK, I tried it and it works great. Ta.

Simon


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