Re: GREP doesn't work

[Justin Dearing <zippy1981@xxxxxxxxx>]

Grep -r for recursive. . Not *

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, 15:19 Dean Eshleman <Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to search some files on the IFS for a string and it doesn't
> seem to work.  Here is what I'm doing.
>
> STRQSH
> Cd /directorytosearch
> Grep 'searchstring' *
>
> When I do this, it just returns to the command prompt.  No errors listed.
> I know there are files in that directory that contain my search string.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> We are on 7.1.
>
> Dean Eshleman
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>
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