From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 6:10:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B8E37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 06:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 10E6E901A00; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:10:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:10:03 -0500 From: mpd To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com> References: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:13:35AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ___________________________________________________________ "POKEY I WANT TO BUY AN EIGHT FOOT TALL CRIME FIGHTING ROBOT!!" - Little Girl from "REQUEST DENIED THEN GRANTED" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message