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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 14:51:02 -0600
From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To: tcg@ime.net
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In-Reply-To: <31E7EF2F.4258@ime.net> (message from Gary Chrysler on Sat, 13
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Subject: Re: Recursive grep.
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>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> writes:

    Gary> Could someone please show me an example using grep to search
    Gary> through files in a tree. ie: recursivly.

      find <tree-root> -type f | xargs grep <pattern> /dev/null

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Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
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