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From: Mark DOT Bevan AT gwent DOT wales DOT nhs DOT uk
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: grep problems
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:46:41 +0100
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All,

I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files.

From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to show
itself :

C:\temp>type test.txt
text

C:\temp>grep test test.txt
text

C:\temp>grep text *.txt
test.txt:text

C:\temp>grep text \temp\test.txt
text

C:\temp>grep text \temp\*.txt
GREP: temp*.txt: No such file or directory

C:\temp>grep text ..\temp\*.txt
GREP: ..temp*.txt: No such file or directory

C:\temp>grep text c:\temp\*.txt
GREP: c:\temp\*.txt: No such file or directory

C:\temp>grep text ../temp/*.txt
../temp/test.txt:hello

C:\temp>grep text /temp/*.txt
GREP: /temp/*.txt: No such file or directory

C:\temp>grep text c:/temp/*.txt
c:/temp/test.txt:text

I have upgraded to latest release of Cygwin and this has not changed things.
I have tried the above on a Windows 98 and Windows XP system as well - same
results.

Any ideas how I get around this problem ?

Mark
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