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Re: Newbie: Searching sub directories for text
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lconrad@world.std.com)
Mon Oct 26 18:29:47 1998
From: lconrad@world.std.com
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Date: 26 Oct 1998 18:27:59 -0500
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Dave <DGMDGM@INAME.COM> writes:
> How can I search a directory and all of its sub directories for a file
> containing a specified text string. I know how to use grep to search a
> single directory but is there a way to make it search all of the sub
> directories too? Maybe there is another program that I should be using??
Try:
find <directory> -type f -print | xargs grep <string>
It's worth learning to use find if you want to do operations on a
whole directory tree. There is a syntax for executing a command like
grep directly on the find command line, but I find the pipe to xargs
easier to remember and type.
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