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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!serval!hlu
  2. From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: TextSearch under Linux
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan24.223011.5389@serval.net.wsu.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Jan 93 22:30:11 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan24.223011.5389
  8. References: <7-PCNews-124beta@alpha.saar.de>
  9. Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
  10. Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
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  13. In article <7-PCNews-124beta@alpha.saar.de>, georg@alpha.saar.de (Georg Edelmann) writes:
  14. |> Hello Linux-World,
  15. |> 
  16. |> I'm quite sure that anyone had this problem too :
  17. |> 
  18. |> what's the shell command(s) for searching text in files recursively
  19. |> in all subdirectories from a given point in FS tree ?
  20. |> 
  21. |> Thanks for help.
  22. |> 
  23. |> Georg
  24. |> 
  25. |> 
  26. |> ----
  27. |> Georg Edelmann                                  Telephone: 49-7643-8807
  28. |> georg@alpha.saar.de                             Address:   Dragonerstrasse 47
  29. |>                                                            D 7834 Herbolzheim 4
  30. |>                                                            Germany
  31. |> 
  32.  
  33. Please get a good Unix book. To find "foobar", a very simple one:
  34.  
  35. find . -exec grep foobar {} \;
  36.  
  37. It can more than that.
  38.  
  39.  
  40. H.J.
  41.