grep -R won't recurse directories

From: j kopek (remove_leading_jgb_jgbjprok_at_optonline.net)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:06:53 GMT

there is probably a reason for this ( I hope )
when I try to perform a grep and specify "-R" or "-r", ommitting the
quotes, the search only searches the current directory.

So performing

grep -R somestring *.txt

or

grep -R somestring ./*.txt

will only return strings found in the current directory.

I believe I RTFM, but maybe I need to RRTFM!

Thank you I appreciate the help

john

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