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On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:30:26 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> Can anyone explain this to me? |
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> $ /bin/grep -r hmenu *html |
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> index.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> master.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pictures.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> |
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> $ /bin/grep -r hmenu pages/*html |
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> pages/community.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/contacts.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/history.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/music.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/news.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/people.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/pictures.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> |
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> Grep is clearly disobeying the recursion command. I started noticing this a |
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> few days ago, and it's making maintenance of this directory hard work. |
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You equally clearly do not understand how recursion works. You told it to grep |
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through all the html files starting from pages/ and it did so. |
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You did not tell it to start from pages/.. so why do you think it should do |
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so? |
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-- |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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