Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: rd5718 AT irix DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Rich Dawe) Subject: Re: ptrdiff_t X-Nntp-Posting-Host: irix.bris.ac.uk Message-ID: Lines: 22 Sender: usenet AT fsa DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Usenet) Organization: University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990207213333 DOT 0081a3f0 AT pop DOT netaddress DOT com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:04:41 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Paul Derbyshire (pderbysh AT usa DOT net) wrote: : I tried what I guessed from the documentation would find all files with a : certain string in a directory (which I knew had some files containing the : string) and it came up empty... grep e.g. grep ptrdiff_t e:/djgpp/include/*.h Put quotes round the string if you have spaces in it. You might also need to escape it. You can put wildcards in the filenames, e.g. e:/djgpp/inclue/*/*.h. You can also do 'grep --help' for some helpful help. Happy grepin' HTH -- ============================================================================== Rich Dawe - 4th-year MSci Physicist @ Bristol University, UK richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com, http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ==============================================================================