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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:34:20 +0100
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        Simon Jolle sjolle <urandomdev@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Grep Guru
Message-ID:  <20080608203420.GA92357@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <484C3FB7.4080208@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:23:19PM +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
>
> On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Or install the GNU grep (from the man)
> 
> -R, -r, --recursive
> Read all  files  under  each  directory,  recursively;  this  is
> equivalent to the -d recurse option.
> 

What's gained from GNU grep? FreeBSD grep, automatically recurses in
to each subdir unless given the -maxdepth option.

Looks like FreeBSD grep wins (one less argument needed) ;)

> > Bill
> 
> cheers
> Simon
> 
> 

Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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