X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:17:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work? Message-ID: <20090706171707.GD20446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <24359078 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <24359078.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:13:12AM -0700, km4hr wrote: > >Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way? > >Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin? > >find .|grep "hello" > >I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word "hello" is >in some files. > >What I want this command to do is find all files in all sub-directories and >pipe the output to grep. Grep then looks in each file for the word "hello". >The names of files that contain the word "hello" should be returned. Not really Cygwin specific but: grep -r hello . cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple