[SunHELP] grep.... recursive searching

Prakash Venkatakrishna prakash.venkat at alopa.com
Thu Mar 7 11:28:33 CST 2002


 Here's a few suggestions.. This is for the recursive search..

find . -exec grep -l "pattern to be matched" {} \; - Just list the files
which match the pattern.

find . -exec grep -l "pattern to be matched" {} \; >  /tmp/find.txt -
Redirecting output to a file

 vi 'find . -exec grep -l "pattern to be matched" {} \;' - will open the
file in vi so that you can edit all the files which match that pattern

 Hope you find it useful.

 Regards,

 -Prakash

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find <rep> | xargs grep <expr>
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	-----Message d'origine-----
	De:	Solaris Neophyte [SMTP:solarisneophyte at yahoo.com]
	Date:	jeudi 7 mars 2002 11:02
	@:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
	Objet:	[SunHELP] grep.... recursive searching

	hello,

	I know that the grep command has the ability to search a group
of files... you
	can even specify multiple directories... but I want to know if
there is an
	option or some uncomplicated way to recursively search a
directory so that I
	don't need to enter each and every directory within a tree.

	-Sameer
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