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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!airgun!airgun.wg.waii.com!bab
  2. From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: recursive grep'ing
  5. Message-ID: <BAB.92Dec28110925@se39.wg2.waii.com>
  6. Date: 28 Dec 92 16:09:25 GMT
  7. References: <Bzvwwo.Aq8@NCoast.ORG> <1992Dec28.043508.3237@csie.nctu.edu.tw>
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  12. In-reply-to: cp78065@csie.nctu.edu.tw's message of 28 Dec 92 04:35:08 GMT
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  14.  
  15. -->"Ji-Tzay" == Ji-Tzay Yang <cp78065@csie.nctu.edu.tw> writes:
  16.  
  17. Brad Banko (btb@NCoast.ORG) wrote:
  18. : 
  19. :     A small question, is it possible to recursively grep files? This could
  20. : be very useful, especially since many users on my unix box have files that con-
  21. : tain illegalities. Any help thru e-mail would be greatly appreciated.
  22. : 
  23. : 
  24. : -- 
  25. : Brad Banko
  26. : Internet : btb@ncoast.org
  27. : 
  28. : 
  29.  
  30. Ji-Tzay> Try the following line:
  31.  
  32. Ji-Tzay> find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep "YOUR PATTERN"
  33.  
  34. You should be able to drop the -name part, since you want all names.
  35.  
  36. Just use find . -print | xargs grep "PATTERN"
  37.  
  38. bab
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