Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:37:09 -0500 From: "Bara Zani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com> To: "mpd" <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <022d01c1c5e5$913b9bb0$fd6e34c6@moti> References: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com>
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IMHO & AFAIK grep cant recurse through dirs
why not combine it with find ?
find /path -name whatever -exec grep pattern {} \; ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "mpd" <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching
> 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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