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Re: Newbie: Searching sub directories for text
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willie Twonk)
Mon Oct 26 19:00:20 1998
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:30:55 +1030
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From: "Willie Twonk" <email@ace.net.au>
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rgrep = recursive grep.
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On 10/26/98, at 6:10 PM, Dave wrote:
>Newbie question:
>
>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??
>
>TIA,
>Dave
>
>
>
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