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- From: s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Lee Hollingworth)
- Subject: Re: need a bit of help in
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:42:52 GMT
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- rduta@nyx.cs.du.edu (Radu) writes:
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- >Ok, tow things:
- >1) I want a method of copying whole directories. I'm used to the mac where
- > you can just drag folders form one dir to another and it moves it or
- > copies it. I want something similar for unix. The thing is that I
- > Haven't the slightest idea how to start.
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- >2) I was wandering what is the easiest way to do a recursive grep, where
- > it searches all the files in all dirs. I was thinking something along
- > the lines of "grep -R string *" but the "-R" flag is not an option.
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- >any ideas?
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- Check out the "man" entry for cp, eg the recusive argument -r ...
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- Lee Hollingworth
- s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au
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