Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:34:46 +0100 From: Benoit Lacherez <blacherez@ac-bordeaux.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <20020307123446.A25142@bisclavret.iris33.ac-bordeaux.f> In-Reply-To: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:13:35AM -0800 References: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bsd Neophyte a écrit : > > 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? grep -r It seems that egrep works better (faster) than grep. -- Benoit Lacherez Académie de Bordeaux -- CATICE Projet de traduction de la documentation de Python: http://frpython.sourceforge.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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