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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:12:56 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Grep Guru
Message-ID:  <20080608201256.GA28987@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <484C3CC4.7050107@webrz.net>
References:  <484C3CC4.7050107@webrz.net>

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On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ 
>and down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them.
>Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks,

I expect you need something like:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep pattern

Bill
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