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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Keywords: grep, recursive
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Date: 15 Apr 91 19:43:04 GMT
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In article <1991Apr14.214414.9815@hellgate.utah.edu> rnelson%hell.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu 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?  
>	I have tried :  grep -R pattern *
>			

If you know the depth you want to search, you can say:

grep pattern */*  (i.e matches all files of all subdirectories)

you can go as far as you want, i.e grep pattern */*/*

Another way is to use find:

find . -exec grep pattern "{}" \;

or you could use xargs:

find . -print | xargs grep pattern.


			-Kartik

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