[SLUG] Pah, that Allsopp

[John Allsopp]

Ross Kendall wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> My understanding is that while the 'grep -r' might be recursive, the
> simple pattern match for the filename isn't (*php*).
> grep -ir "models" *php*
> ...does a (case insensitive) recursive grep ("models") on any file or
> directory in the current dir that matches *php*
> So I guess your subdir doesn't match the string *php*
> 
> I would use find and grep together to do what you want:
> find ./ -name *php* -type f -exec grep -i "models" '{}' \;
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ross.

Sounds great Ross, thanks a lot, makes sense (kinda).

Y'see Fintan, it's not that hard :-)

J