 | | | About grep | About grep 2004-01-13 - By John McKowen Taylor, Jr.
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>Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:38:15 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jack Wang <jwus2001@(protected) >
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>Subject: About grep
>
>I can use the following grep command to find a string
>in current directory:
>
>grep "abc " *.*
>
>How to find a string recursively into subdirectories?
My personal favorite is still:
find . -type f -exec grep 'abc ' {} /dev/null \;
Note the use of /dev/null as a second file name arg to grep:
this forces grep to emit the name of the file the search string was
found in, if any...without it you get a list of the matched lines, but
no file name where found...useless.
Now if only "find " had "grep " built in... :)
-- johnT
John McKowen Taylor, Jr.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
200 Regency Forest Dr.
Cary, NC 27511 USA
+1 919 481 6835
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