Re: bug

[Charles Levert]

* On Saturday 2005-09-03 at 20:08:42 -0500, complete wrote:
> 
> grep -rn append_sid *.*

How about just

   grep -rn append_sid .

where "." designates the current directory?


> The output from this shows data from the
> "_New CompleteTranslations.com\_phpBB2"
> directory only and it seems that any
> directories that follow alphabetically
> are ignored.

In the *.* glob, the first star matches
"_New CompleteTranslations", the dot matches
literally, and the second star matches "com".

Is there anything else in the current directory
from which the search is initiated that has
a dot in its name and that contains a match
(directly or recursively)?

In this instance, grep is most likely doing
correctly the job exactly as you specified it,
without bugs or limitations.