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Re: grep to recurse
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| Ron Janisse 2004-01-23, 4:27 pm |
| Try this:
find /dirA/* -name '*' -exec grep -l 'something' {} \;
"yls177" <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c06e4d68.0306111924.7d9b96bd@posting.google.com...quote:
> i am in directory dirA, also, i have subdirectory as subdirB, subdirC.
> if i want to show those files that contain something, i will do a grep
> something *. But, how do i recurse down to subdirectories. i read man,
> and only understood the -V -E \\ parameters... thanks for helping
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| Ron Janisse 2004-01-23, 4:27 pm |
| Try this:
find /dirA/* -name '*' -exec grep -l 'something' {} \;
"yls177" <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c06e4d68.0306111924.7d9b96bd@posting.google.com...quote:
> i am in directory dirA, also, i have subdirectory as subdirB, subdirC.
> if i want to show those files that contain something, i will do a grep
> something *. But, how do i recurse down to subdirectories. i read man,
> and only understood the -V -E \\ parameters... thanks for helping
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| Ron Janisse 2004-01-23, 4:38 pm |
| Try this:
find /dirA/* -name '*' -exec grep -l 'something' {} \;
"yls177" <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c06e4d68.0306111924.7d9b96bd@posting.google.com...quote:
> i am in directory dirA, also, i have subdirectory as subdirB, subdirC.
> if i want to show those files that contain something, i will do a grep
> something *. But, how do i recurse down to subdirectories. i read man,
> and only understood the -V -E \\ parameters... thanks for helping
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| Ron Janisse 2004-01-23, 4:54 pm |
| Try this:
find /dirA/* -name '*' -exec grep -l 'something' {} \;
"yls177" <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c06e4d68.0306111924.7d9b96bd@posting.google.com...quote:
> i am in directory dirA, also, i have subdirectory as subdirB, subdirC.
> if i want to show those files that contain something, i will do a grep
> something *. But, how do i recurse down to subdirectories. i read man,
> and only understood the -V -E \\ parameters... thanks for helping
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