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.
If this problem occurs on a Windows system, I would start by looking for extraneous <carriage-return> characters in the script you're running. For example if the grep line in the script is:
Code:
grep Find *.txt<CR>
where <CR> is a carriage-return character, instead of:
Code:
grep Find *.txt
the only you're likely to get is a diagnostic saying it can't open a file named *.txt<CR>
and the <CR> in the diagnostic will be invisible unless the diagnostic quotes the filename (in which case you end us with a quote at the start of the diagnostic instead of at the end).
Please show us the output from the command:
Code:
od -bc script_name
where script_name is the name of your shell script containing the grep command. (And, obviously, please show us all of the output produced when you run your script and the exact command line you used to invoke your script.)
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