How about trying: grep arch4 * grep arch4 /* grep arch4 /*/* etc. etc. I'm just learning about grep but this seems to work for me. Thanks! jrh -----Original Message----- From: Samy Elashmawy [mailto:samelash@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 4:03 AM To: François Pinard Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] grep help At 07:43 PM 5/15/2000 -0400, François Pinard wrote:
Samy Elashmawy <samelash@ix.netcom.com> 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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