Re: Search in content of a IFS file

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, you're the expert; I didn't' see your post until after I'd sent mine.

I wasn't sure if grep expanded wildcards either, which is why I said "if 
grep works like find" as you'd explained in the thread Michael provided 
a link to.

On 1/23/2012 12:38 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Peter,
>
> That searches the contents of a file named '*'.  The '*' is no longer 
> treated as a wildcard, because you put strong quotes around it, 
> telling QShell not to expand it.  (I don't know if grep expands 
> wildcards?)
>
> Seems to me (as I said in another post) what he wants is this:
>
> QSH CMD('grep -R 110000890 /M3BE/env/PRD/Output')
>
> Unless you have a good reason to make it more complicated than that?
>
>
>
> On 1/23/2012 2:17 PM, Peter Dow wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Thanks for that link to Scott's explanation (and thanks to Scott for the
> > explanation); I would've been stumped.  But from Guy's previous posts,
> > grep needs a list of files, and there are too many. If Scott's
> > explanation of how to get around it for "find" will work with "grep",
> > then this ought to work:
> >
> > QSH CMD('grep 110000890 ''/M3BE/env/PRD/Output/*''')