grep not working when I enclose the directory in double quotes When I do something like this: grep "hello" /home/paul/* It works. But when I do something like this: grep "hello" "/ho...--prophetes.ai

grep not working when I enclose the directory in double quotes When I do something like this: grep "hello" /home/paul/* It works. But when I do something like this: grep "hello" "/home/paul/" `grep` display the error: > grep: /home/paul/: No such file or sirectory Why is that?

From the bash reference manual:

> Enclosing characters in double quotes (‘"’) preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of ‘$’, ‘`’, ‘\’, and, when history expansion is enabled, ‘!’.

So you must remove the special character `*` from your quoted string in order for it to be treated as a wildcard.

grep "hello" "/home/paul/"*

grep not working when I enclose the directory in double quotes When I do something like this: grep "hello" /home/paul/* It works. But when I do something like this: grep "hello" "/home/paul/*" `grep` display the error: > grep: /home/paul/*: No such file or sirectory Why is that?

grep not working when I enclose the directory in double quotes When I do something like this: grep "hello" /home/paul/* It works. But when I do something like this: grep "hello" "/home/paul/" `grep` display the error: > grep: /home/paul/: No such file or sirectory Why is that?