Grep Guru
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sun Jun 8 20:26:58 UTC 2008
Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
> On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>>> I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./
>>> and down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them.
>>> Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks,
>> I expect you need something like:
>>
>> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep pattern
>
> Or install the GNU grep (from the man)
>
> -R, -r, --recursive
> Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is
> equivalent to the -d recurse option.
The system supplied grep(1) /is/ gnu grep:
happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD
Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
grep -r works just fine.
Cheers,
Matthew
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