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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:10:03 -0500
From:      mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep.... recursive searching
Message-ID:  <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:13:35AM -0800
References:  <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:13:35AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
> 
> I'm reading up on grep... (thanks for the explaining the find command...
> that let me move forward)... and i've noticed that while you can search
> for a "regular expression" (did I use that right?) there is no mention of
> any ability to do a recursive search.
> 
> i checked the man page and seached for the "regular expression" (this will
> be on a quiz tomorrow... that's why i'm using it so much :D ) "recursive"
> but nothing came up.
> 
> is there some uncomplicated way of doing a recursive search with grep?
> 
> -Sameer
> 

I'm more curious of a way to make it recurse through all the
directories, but only try to match on certain files.
Is this even possible with this version of grep? The fm (of
rtfm fame) isn't giving me any epiphanies.

mike
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