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From: a20@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Keywords: Use find, and grep
Message-ID: <1027@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 26 Oct 90 13:10:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.123025.18012@kodak.kodak.com> <1990Oct23.143247.5639@lgc.com> <490@epicb.com>
Sender: terpstra@nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra)
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In article <1990Oct23.123025.18012@kodak.kodak.com> tiefel@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Lenny Tiefel) writes:
>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?

A few months or so ago some people wanted to de the same thing. After a long
debate of the best solutions this is the one that should work best :

--start of script--
#! /bin/sh
# Recgrep : a version of grep which recursively searches every directory
# within current directory.
# Usage : recgrep <string>

find . -type f -exec grep $1 {} /dev/null \;
--end of script--

Marten
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