If you're wanting to grep through multiple files in multiple directories some levels deep, use a combination of find, grep, and xargs. For example, my boss wanted to look for a string FOO in all of our sorce code (.c, .cpp, and .h files). This is accomplished like this (assuming we're looking in the current dir and below): keith@develop[pts/7]:~$ find . -type f \( -name \*.c -o \

-name \*.cpp -o -name \*.h \) \ -print0 | xargs --null grep FOO

Check the man for find(1), grep(1), and xargs(1) Ciao, kw /* Keith Warno ** Developer & Sys Admin ** http://www.HaggleWare.com/ */ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samy Elashmawy" To: "François Pinard" Cc: Sent: 16 May 2000, Tuesday 05:02 Subject: Re: [SLE] grep help At 07:43 PM 5/15/2000 -0400, François Pinard wrote:

Samy Elashmawy writes:

...

I tried grep -r "arch4" /

it only searches the root and nothing below that. I tried grep "arch4" /* /*/* /*/*/* /*/*/*/* ant it stopped with an error arguments two long or something. I was hoping to find the deffinition files that have the size and pixel lenth of the printer page layoust so I could change them to a custom setting. Murphys law ya know

It works here, running version 2.3. But you need a recent version of `grep', I do not remember when the `-r' was added to it. Check with `grep --help' to see if `-r' is supported.

-- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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