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[keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Keith Warno)]

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
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Samy Elashmawy" <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "François Pinard" <pinard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
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 <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
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>François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
>
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