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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:25:36 -0400
From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> writes:
> 
>     Gary> Could someone please show me an example using grep to search
>     Gary> through files in a tree. ie: recursivly.
> 
>       find <tree-root> -type f | xargs grep <pattern> /dev/null
> 

Thanks Shawn, I'll give this a go.
I did try something simular, But not the same.
	find <tree-root> | grep <pattern>
didn't work though.. :(

Thanks.

-Enjoy
Gary
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