Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 13:21:51 -0700 From: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu (Bruce A. Mah) To: tcg@ime.net Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, bmah@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Recursive grep. Message-ID: <199607132021.NAA16168@conviction.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jul 1996 14:47:11 EDT." <31E7EF2F.4258@ime.net>
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Gary Chrysler writes:
> Could someone please show me an example using grep to search
> through files in a tree. ie: recursivly.
>
> I've read the grep man page, No luck, Tried piping various things
> into grep without success!
Gary--
I've used the following script for awhile. Ugly as sin, but it gets
the job done (run it at the top of the tree you want to recursive grep
through).
Hope this helps...
Bruce.
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Content-Type: application/x-script
Content-Description: rgrep
#!/bin/csh -f
# $Id: rgrep,v 1.1 1992/07/04 18:34:15 bmah Exp bmah $
#
# $Header: /db/users/bmah/bin/RCS/rgrep,v 1.1 1992/07/04 18:34:15 bmah Exp bmah $
#
# rgrep
# Bruce A. Mah (bmah@tenet.berkeley.edu)
#
# Recursive grep.
#
# $Log: rgrep,v $
# Revision 1.1 1992/07/04 18:34:15 bmah
# rgrep won't try to grep directories now.
#
# Revision 1.0 1992/07/02 19:10:04 bmah
# Initial revision
#
#
if ($#argv == 2) then
set noglob
find . \! -type d -name $2 -exec grep $1 {} /dev/null ";"
unset noglob
else if ($#argv == 1) then
set noglob
find . \! -type d -exec grep $1 {} /dev/null ";"
unset noglob
else
echo "usage: rgrep {target}"
echo " rgrep {target} {filespec}"
endif
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