Thread: Is it my network... or...

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sorry, is my techno deficiency showing? ops: ops: ops:

with normal grep under bsd it is

grep -d recurse

or

grep -r

Originally posted by incisor
with normal grep under bsd it is

grep -d recurse

or

grep -r

Yup - the -r switch is pretty useful here too. Rgrep just gives you a lot more options, that's all.

Either way

Will that also interrogate compressed files ( ie *.tar.gz files) within those directories or do they have to be decompressed first :?:

Sorry Ferno, but its a already a bit of a techno thread anyway :!:

Dave

Recursive grep is one of the nice things to come out of open-source distros. As the other vendors are sticking by the standards (either POSIX or BSD) and there is no recursive grep function in those standards so they never bothered to make one....

Of course even when they do stick to the standards, it's always *their interpretation* of the standards. A good example is MAC addresses. The standard states that each node shall have a seperate MAC address. Sun interpreted a node as being a full machine, whilst everyone else in the world interpreted a node as being a port.

Originally that caused no end of problem when connecting more than 1 LAN port from a Sun server to a switched network, however these days Sun has come to the party (a bit) with a eeprom switch that allows you to set each LAN port to have it's own MAC address. However they still ship with the factory default setting of 1 MAC address for the machine, no matter how many ports :-)

Originally posted by adm333
Will that also interrogate compressed files ( ie *.tar.gz files) within those directories or do they have to be decompressed first :?:

Sorry Ferno, but its a already a bit of a techno thread anyway :!:

Dave

For archives try zgrep with the recursive switch set.

Thanks Inc and Omaroo

Now I have a legit reason for logging on from work.

I can say its a Unix help forum



How much do you know about Oracle :wink:

Dave

Oracle? Eek!

I'm a mySQL boy these days, but I was bought up on the PICK database OS.