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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To:        tcg@ime.net
Cc:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recursive grep.
Message-ID:  <199607140128.SAA09139@athena.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <31E8232D.7362@ime.net> from Gary Chrysler at "Jul 13, 96 06:29:01 pm"

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According to Gary Chrysler:
> 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


		If some of you unix command wizards will indulge
		me: why is ``/dev/null'' at the end of the 
		command??

		gary kline




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