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From: F.Xavier Noria <fxn@isoco.com>
To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:13:35 -0800 (PST)
Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> wrote:

: is there some uncomplicated way of doing a recursive search with grep?

Sure,

    $ grep -r foo .

recursively searches "foo" in every file below ..

-- fxn

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