Try: (untested) find . -exec fgrep pattern {} /dev/null \; which should find files under the current directory and do a 'fgrep' on them. Check out the manual page for find(1). Hope that helps. Paul Abraham -- speaking for myself.

-----Original Message----- From: info@edoc.co.za [SMTP:info@edoc.co.za] Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 07:58 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SuSE Linux] grep recursive

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

Nico

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