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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Subject: Re: Recursive grep.
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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.