Re: GREP

[Bryan Swann <swann nosc mil>]

Walter,

To search lots of files using grep.  I use find and grep together.  The
following example recursively searches all filenamess that end in "html"
from my home directory (/home/swann) that contain the phrase "hello".

 find /home/swann -name "*html" -exec grep hello {} \; -print

The last "-print" option will also print the filename of any match.

To perform the same search on ALL files

  find /home/swann -exec grep hello {} \; -print

Hope this helps.

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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Walter Brandt wrote:

> Hi.  I hope someone here can help me.  I am still a newbie to Linux (well,
> in fact - Unix full stop).  My question is hopefully simple to answer.
> 
> Can someone please give me the command to search subdirectories for the
> occurrence of text within some files.  I can search all the files in a
> single directory, just not in subdirectories.
> 
> eg.
> grep -r *.* sometext
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Can you please e-mail any responses
> to the newsgroup and my e-mail directly?
> 
> Many :)
> 
> 
> Walter
> 
> 
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