recursive grep

[Michael K. Elwood]

> Is there something I'm missing, or does this version of grep not support
> a recursive option?  I've never used a grep that couldn't do this....

The UNIXy way to do this is

find | xargs grep <pattern>

xargs is the totally cool glue that makes this construct work. Check the man
page for xargs. You can also constrain the files fed to grep using standard
'find' syntax.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

MKE




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