[SunHELP] Re: grep.... recursive searching

[Wesley A. Wannemacher]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:06:29 -0800, Will Yardley <william+sun at hq.newdream.net>
wrote:> Solaris Neophyte wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> eek - sorry - grep -r doesn't work with solaris grep.  however you could
> install the gnu grep and alias it to something else (ie ggrep) and use
> ggrep -r (or alias 'rgrep' to '/usr/local/bin/grep -r' (or wherever you
> install the GNU version).
> 

In the past, I have just done:

`find . | xargs grep RegEx `

-- 
:wq

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