Re: Grep has a Bug with recursive-option and file-pattern

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/05/2010 06:36 PM, Asis Hallab wrote:
> Good day!
>
> The following example should explain it:
>
> # First grep returns no result.
> : grep -lr  "oligarchy" *.txt
> # Second one ignoring the txt-file-pattern, does!: ~/Documents$ grep -lr  
> "oligarchy" *tmp/test.txt

This is not how grep -r works.  In the first case, grep -r looks for 
"*.txt" in the current directory only.

What you want is

  grep --include=*.txt -lr oligarchy .

Paolo