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What's wrong with grep (Score:2)

by bart (450)

.. and the reason I'm interested in alternatives, is the option to specify file extensions (or more general: file name patterns) for the files to search in, specifically for recursive mode.

grep depends on the shell to expand globs into a list of filenames, and this breaks down when your start descending into directories.
- Re:What's wrong with grep (Score:1)
  
  by Alias (5735) on 2007.08.19 16:52 (#57058) Homepage Journal
  
  If you just need a smarter grep, without the ability to understand Perl, you might want something like ack.
  
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