Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:57:21 -0500 From: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> To: Barry Byrne <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <20020307105721.A46199@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKMEMCHHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>; from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:21:25PM %2B0000 References: <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com> <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKMEMCHHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:21:25PM +0000, Barry Byrne wrote:
> 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" {} \;
I know about this, but it's too much typing. I'm looking for
functionality more like rgrep that comes with RH. Has anyone tried
this on FreeBSD? This is the one thing I miss from using Linux.
It's written in perl, but I can't find a copy anywhere right now.
Will keep looking.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Barry
>
mike
>
> >
> > 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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