Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:03:55 -0500 From: Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com> To: Bara Zani <bara_zani@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <20020307200355.A2774@sunder.touchtunes.com> In-Reply-To: <022d01c1c5e5$913b9bb0$fd6e34c6@moti>; from bara_zani@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:37:09AM -0500 References: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com> <022d01c1c5e5$913b9bb0$fd6e34c6@moti>
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And what's wrong with 'grep -r' ?
-r, --recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively;
this is equivalent to the -d recurse option.
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:37:09AM -0500, Bara Zani wrote:
> From: "Bara Zani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com>
> To: "mpd" <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:37:09 -0500
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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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