Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:10:03 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: tcg@ime.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recursive grep. Message-ID: <XFMail.960713221328.dkelly@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <199607140128.SAA09139@athena.tera.com>
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On 23:28:33 Gary Kline wrote:
>>According to Gary Chrysler:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> >
>> > >>>>> "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
>
> If some of you unix command wizards will indulge
> me: why is ``/dev/null'' at the end of the
> command??
I dunno, but I'm not a Unix wizard. :-)
I've always used with success:
find <tree-root> -type f -exec grep -l <pattern> {} \;
usually use "grep -il ..." but you get the idea.
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