Re: grep pipe

[Alain Williams]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Max Charles wrote:
> How you get grep to put the output of the pipe like so, there seems to be no 
> option for something like this:
> 
> echo 'patternfrompipe' | grep -R 'patternfrompipe' *

grep -R "$( echo 'patternfrompipe' )" *

> grep -R 'pattern' *
> works fine
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Max

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