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Checkout the glimpse package it comes with S.u.S.E. It's an interesting program and has a feature called agrep. It basically builds an index using glimpseindex and can search entire filesystems for words etc. -M On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 info@edoc.co.za wrote:
Hi,
I hope somebody can help me.
I have to search all the files in a directory and its subdirectories and their subdirectories for a string.
I can search a directory at a time with fgrep 'string' *.*, but this is taking ages to do for every dirictory.
Is their a way to grep recursively through the directories? I could not find anything like that in the manual.
Thanks
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