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From: mmoore%hellgate.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: grep
Keywords: grep, recursive
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.214414.9815@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 03:44:14 GMT
Reply-To: rnelson%hell.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu
Organization: University of Utah, CS Dept., Salt Lake City
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	Does anyone know if there is an easy way to recursively search for a 
pattern down the entire file tree of a directory?  
	I have tried :  grep -R pattern *
			grep -r pattern *
			grep -R pattern dirname
			grep -r pattern dirname
			

	I don't know what to do.  If there were a way to recursively cat 
files or something similar, I could pipe that to grep, but I can't find that
either.

	ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

	(P.S.  Is this the proper newsgroup to post this question to?)
	(      If not, please let me know which one is.              )



Michael Moore
University of Utah

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