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The -w option was unknown, so I removed that.

Then it ran without finding the file, test_code.c in the current directory. So I looked up the commands, to better understand what we were doing...it should work, but it just returns empty...no printout at all.

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my rep now stands @ -3...

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Re^3: Search thru directories of .c & .h files for @Constants
by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 19, 2007 at 01:06 UTC 
    egrep --recursive --include=*.[ch] 'foo|bar|baz|boz' *

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    But you need an advanced grep, such as gnu grep.

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