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From: jcd@spock.att.com (Jack Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.081331.24818@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 08:13:31 GMT
References: <1207@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
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From article <1207@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, by a20@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra):
> mmoore%hellgate.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
> 
>>	Does anyone know if there is an easy way to recursively search for a 
>>pattern down the entire file tree of a directory?  
> 

This is what I use:

	find dir -type f -print | xargs grep pattern
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Jack Dixon,  AT&T Network Systems
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