Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:21:25 -0000 From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "mpd" <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKMEMCHHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com>
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Mike:
I think what you wish to to is use find to located certain files recursively
and then grep these files for a specific pattern.
If so, try something like:
find /START/OF/PATH -name "FINDPATTERN" -exec grep "GREPPATTERN" {} \;
Cheers,
Barry
--
Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
> 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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