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From: dbm@deltahp.nasa.gov (Brad Mears)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Keywords: grep, recursive
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.133726.3613@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 15 Apr 91 13:37:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr14.214414.9815@hellgate.utah.edu>
Sender: dbm@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Brad Mears)
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In article <1991Apr14.214414.9815@hellgate.utah.edu>, mmoore%hellgate.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
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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? 

Look at the -exec option on find.  This executes the specified command for each
file found.

-- 
Brad Mears
dbm@deltahp.jsc.nasa.gov

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