Re: Newbie can't get gnu grep to produce results

RichardL <RichardDummyMailbox58407USComputerGurus.com>
writes:
> K:TempGnuTest>grep -l -i 'hello' *.txt

I know not much of MS-DOS and even less of MS-Windows, but
ISTR that
the * is not expanded by COMMAND.COM.  grep finds no file
named
'*.txt' so it prints nothing, which is as documented.

Try: 

   grep -l -i hello song.txt HelloWorld.txt

If that works, then download http://www.cygwin.com
/setup.exe
install cygwin, and use bash as shell instead of
COMMAND.COM.
Unix shells do expand characters such as * themselves.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimag
o.com/
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people, and
neither do we. -- Georges W. Bush

On Jul 25, 11:39 am, Pascal Bourguignon <p...informatimago.com>
wrote:
> RichardL <RichardDummyMailbox58...USComputerGurus.com> writes:
> > K:TempGnuTest>grep -l -i 'hello' *.txt
>
> I know not much of MS-DOS and even less of MS-Windows,
but ISTR that
> the * is not expanded by COMMAND.COM.  grep finds no
file named
> '*.txt' so it prints nothing, which is as documented.
>
> Try:
>
>    grep -l -i hello song.txt HelloWorld.txt
>
> If that works, then downloadhttp://www.cygwin.com
/setup.exe
> install cygwin, and use bash as shell instead of
COMMAND.COM.
> Unix shells do expand characters such as * themselves.
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                    http://www.informatimag
o.com/
> Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are
we. They never
> stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and
our people, and
> neither do we. -- Georges W. Bush

Thanks Pascal,

The command you recommended worked perfectly,  i.e. it
reported back
both filenames.

I am in the process of trying out Win-Bash because it
advertises
itself as being self-contained, i.e no DLLs to worry about. 
Do you
think Cygwin's bash is substantially superior to Win-Bash? 
While I
await learning your opinion, I'll fool around with it.
--
Richard