Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:38:51 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Simon Jolle sjolle <urandomdev@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grep Guru Message-ID: <20080608203851.GB92357@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080608203420.GA92357@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <484C3CC4.7050107@webrz.net> <20080608201256.GA28987@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <484C3FB7.4080208@gmail.com> <20080608203420.GA92357@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:34:20PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > 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) ;) Sorry, got confused between grep and xargs! > > Regards, > > -- > > Frank > -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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