[SOLVED] using grep

Hi All,
this might sound like a stupid question which I could find the answer in the doc but err no I did not find it...

I am looking for the word "wizard" inside a bunch of .c files so I am launching grep (os4 version, not from the sdk) :
grep -V
GNU grep 2.5.4

grep wizard *
grep: *: No such file or directory
grep wizard *.*
grep: *.*: No such file or directory
grep wizard #?.c
grep: #?.c: No such file or directory
grep wizard *.c
grep: *.c: No such file or directory

but
grep wizard apotion.c button6.c
does work but I dont want to do that because the drawer contains 400 files !

so what is supposed to be the right way of searching a word inside a bunch of files ??

@Lio

Don't know much about this grep thing, but at least we have:
SEARCH #?.c wizard QUICK

(think Amiga )

@Lio

In my experience the grep command only works if you use it from abc-shell (sh).

@Lio

I've got an earlier version of (I believe) the same grep:

$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5

I can e.g. in my S:Arexx dir do "grep date *.rexx" and get all the lines containing "date" in the ARexx scripts with a .rexx extension, like you'd expect. And this is the regular AmigaShell, not ABCShell. Maybe there's a problem with the newer 2.5.4?

But I agree with the suggestion of using Search instead. Works fine.

Best regards,

Niels

@Lio

can u try these :

grep -r wizard /path to folder/

grep -l 'wizard' *.c

grep -l 'wizard' /path to folder/*.c

@angelheart

Quote:

here is the outcome :
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -r wizard JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/
grep: JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/: Not a directory
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l 'wizard' *.c
grep: *.c: No such file or directory
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l "wizard" *.c
grep: *.c: No such file or directory
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l 'wizard' JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l 'wizard' JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/>ram:test
grep: JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/>ram:test: Invalid argument
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l 'wizard' JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/ >ram:test
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l 'wizard' JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/*.c
grep: JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/*.c: No such file or directory
6.JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story> grep -l "wizard" JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/*.c
grep: JHO:Freedink-OS4/dink/Story/*.c: No such file or directory

@ Centaurz : nice, I did not know search could work like this ! thanks

@ all : thx for your help ! I think the tip of CentaurZ is much more amiga-ish (and working) then grep !

@Lio

AFAIK grep has always worked with * as a wildcard until the previous (and the latest) SDK, and this has not been fixed so far. "grep" below is the working version, while "grep_new" the latest one.

grep 782680 ----rwed 23-Maj-09 12:26:09
grep_new 370066 ----rwed 15-Avg-09 23:55:52

I can PM you this version if interested, grep is a very fast and handy tool.

Varthall

@Varthall

thx for the proposition but the "search" amigados command did the job fine

@Lio

salass00 is correct, type sh first...

if you don't have sh, install the entire SDK environment

hmm, who ever compiled that native version of grep you're using perhaps didn't change the path logic? funny how people do straight ports of such things and don't consider those things...

@Slayer

Or simply download abc-shell from here:
http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... ent/utility/abc-shell.lha

According to the version strings this should be the same version as in the latest SDK.