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From: rjshaw@ramius.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
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Date: 23 Oct 90 09:44:47 GMT
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OOPS!

I just realize that I misunderstood the question:

|
| I have a main directory with hundreds of subdirectories, 
| and I want to find a file with a particular string, say "xyz"
| The grep command only works in one directory at a time. Is there
| a way of searching my whole directory structure to find a file
| with a particular string?
| 

try: find ~ -exec grep xyz {} \; -print

My apologizes...

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