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Old 07-22-2016
Grep doesn't find what it should

Dear all,


I wanted to use grep to search some files containing code - and the result was very disappointing: although I could see with my own eyes the expressions (written in the files), grep didn't give any output.

Basically, I write this to the terminal
Code:
grep "Find" *.txt

or
Code:
grep Find *.txt

in a folder in which some txt files have the word Find in them. Some file also contain some variants like Find, ["Find"], ["FindAllChi..."], etc. I don't get any output, i.e. grep doesn't say file blablabla.txt contains Find or bla2.txt contains FindAllCh..


If I'm editing a file to contain just one line of code, grep finds what I'm looking for.


Can you give some suggestions on how to make grep working?
Thank you!



PS I'm using cygwin 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) on a 64 bits Windows 7 machine.
 

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XZGREP(1)							     XZ Utils								 XZGREP(1)

NAME
xzgrep - search compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
xzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file... xzegrep ... xzfgrep ... lzgrep ... lzegrep ... lzfgrep ... DESCRIPTION
xzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1). All options specified are passed directly to grep(1). If no file is specified, then standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep(1). When reading from standard input, gzip(1) and bzip2(1) compressed files are not supported. If xzgrep is invoked as xzegrep or xzfgrep then egrep(1) or fgrep(1) is used instead of grep(1). The same applies to names lzgrep, lze- grep, and lzfgrep, which are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. ENVIRONMENT
GREP If the GREP environment variable is set, xzgrep uses it instead of grep(1), egrep(1), or fgrep(1). SEE ALSO
grep(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zgrep(1) Tukaani 2010-09-27 XZGREP(1)
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