Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:16:37 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In Files? Message-ID: <20011227151637.J2090@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011227172121.Q11529-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:23:33PM -0500 References: <011701c18f24$951d3b00$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20011227172121.Q11529-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:23:33PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > OK, I am beginning to understand the power of FBSD and am sure this is
> > possible. I just don't know how to do it. What I want to do is search
> > all files in my current directory and all the directories below it for a
> > text string and then know what file(s) contains the string. I
> > understand that grep will do the search but my knowledge is limited to
> > "cat file.txt | grep string". How can I construct a command in tcsh to
> > feed each file to cat and then feed it to grep *AND* know the name of
> > the file grep found the match? Do I have the right concept? Is there a
> > better way to accomplish my goal?
> >
>
> You can do grep -r <pattern> *, but I prefer:
Actually,
$ grep -r <pattern> .
Would be the better way to search the cwd.
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