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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Summary: My solution
Message-ID: <2375@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 21:24:25 GMT
References: <7774@cbmvax.UUCP> <677@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Organization: Cabal of B-Boys
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About a year ago, I wanted to be able to traverse the entire
/usr/spool/news tree and search for keywords in articles.  (Hey,
I was bored. :-)

It's a kludge, it's not pretty, and it probably uses more than it's
share of system time.  If you can suggest a way to make
it cleaner/faster, please let me know.  Flames>/dev/null.

However, it's basic /bin/sh, and I've yet to find a place that it
*doesn't* work.

#!/bin/sh
#^^^^^^^^ Wish I had csh to see if this really works. :-)
#try -- recursive search directory structure
#usage: try directory string
#LIVES= it's home directory
LIVES=/u/erict/bin
for i in $1/*
do
if test -d $i
then
   $LIVES/try $i $2 2>/dev/null
#error into devnull handles the "can't open foo" error messages! :-P
else
   grep "$2" $i
fi
done
-- 
"Watch has a clock on it" -- ficc!peter's 3.7 year old son, on seeing
                              an analog watch.
J. Eric Townsend unet!sugar!flatline!erict com6@uhnix1.uh.edu
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