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Re: Newbie: Searching sub directories for text
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Oct 27 08:34:04 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:33:25 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@INAME.COM>
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Anthony E. Greene writes:
>
> It seems to me that just using rgrep (as mentioned in another post) would
> be simpler and faster than running find and executing grep each time a
> mathcing file is found.
dsun178:userfriendly 37> rgrep
rgrep: Command not found.
dsun178:userfriendly 38>
Ok, I admit it - it's a Sun Sparc Solaris system. But rgrep is less common
than the find/grep combination (at least to my knowledge), so it's nice to
know about that combination as well.
BTW: Does anybody know where rgrep can be found (preferably as tar.gz)? Is
it just another GNU tools?
Until now, I was using this:
#!/bin/sh
# gref - Recursively greps down a directory tree.
# If no path is specified, default is working directory.
#
# NOTE: Some shells require the variables in the "if"
# statements be quoted.
mask=\\*
if [ "$#" = "1" ]
then
dir=.
else
if [ "$#" = "2" ]
then
dir=$2
else
if [ "$#" = "3" ]
then
dir=$2
mask=$3
else
echo "Usage: `basename $0` pattern [path [mask]]"
exit 1
fi
fi
fi
eval find $dir -name $mask -print | xargs egrep -n "$1" 2>/dev/null
Basically find/grep plus some extra comfort... ;-)
Thomas
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