grep -i foobar ./*/*.c

works in bash.

--- Alan Dayley <adayley@adtron.com> wrote:
> Setup:
> -Directory tree
>    top
>     |--sub1
>     |--sub2
>     \--sub3
> -Each of the subX directories have *.c files in them.
> -The top directory does NOT have any *.c files in it.
> -I am currently in the top directory.
> 
> Goal:
> -Find the string "foobar" every place that it occurs in the *.c files
> in 
> all of the subX directories.
> 
> Command and result:
> [adayley@locatlhost top]$ grep -ir foobar *.c
> grep: *.c: No such file or directory
> [adayley@locatlhost top]$
> 
> Question:
> I gave the 'r' option for a recursive search and I know that the subX
> 
> diretories have *.c files.  But, grep appearently does not decend
> into 
> the subX directories because the top directory has no *.c files.  How
> do 
> I make it search the subX directories anyway?
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
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