Not that I've ever needed to use grep before but I'm wondering if it is broken in 6.0A.

I have about 900 files of various types in a directory. I want to find one specific word and I know it is in there somewhere. I open Konsole and type:

mememe@2[~]$ grep -i thisstring /home/mememe/dir/*.*

All that happens is that the cursor returns to the prompt string with no output. From the man pages I think it is right but I don't know. I apt-get agrep too but it doesn't do any better.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong and help me out? Thanks.

Change "*.*" to "*"

Meh. Same thing. One thing I did think of just now was to try it exactly as the example showed with:

mememe@2[~]$ grep -i thisstring /etc/*

and it did return filenames as expected. That means the home dir path is faulty in some way as I typed it I guess. Does anyone know what the trick is to get it to work with the home directory like it works with /etc/?

Ah! Problem solved (in a way).

I used mememe@2[~]$ grep -i -c thisstring /home/mememe/*

so that all files are shown even if they don't contain the string. The problem I was having is that for some reason grep chokes on scripts like cgi, pl and php. The string can be in there but grep won't know it. Thanks for all your help.