Why theses both egrep search don’t return the same result?

Question

I’d like to understand why with the include parameter it doesn’t search into the file identification.php that were targeted.

---

With the include parameter :

admin@server:/filer/www/website/httpdocs$ egrep -Rns --include=*.php "deleteTemp" *
identification.php-sed:61:  $deleteTemp = " DELETE FROM ".$table_name."
identification.php-sed:64:  $execTemp   = @mysql_query ( $deleteTemp );

And without :

admin@server:/filer/www/website/httpdocs$ egrep -Rns "deleteTemp" *
identification.php:61:  $deleteTemp = " DELETE FROM ".$table_name."
identification.php:64:  $execTemp   = @mysql_query ( $deleteTemp );
identification.php-sed:61:  $deleteTemp = " DELETE FROM ".$table_name."
identification.php-sed:64:  $execTemp   = @mysql_query ( $deleteTemp );

I also tried with quotes for the pattern of the include and the result is the same.

Answer 1

I think it is because your pattern is being interpreted by the shell, try:

egrep -Rns --include=\*.php "deleteTemp" *

By the way, do you know ag?