Re: [OS-OFFTOPIC] Greping direcorties recursively

From: Steve (quickey@cyberverse.com)
Date: 09/04/96


On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Rasmus 'Con' Ronlev wrote:

> a directory structure recursively. I.e. if I wanted to search a full
> harddisk for a piece of text contained in any file. How do I do it ?
> As far as I am concerned, I can only make grep do a search for a text in
> the present working directory..
grep Text `find . -name "*" -print`
(some versions of find (actually most) can be run as)
grep Text `find`

--
Steve
quickey@cyberverse.com


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