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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
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Subject: Re: Recursion with grep?
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On Nov 13, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try
> something like
> 
> grep -r -li string *.c

find . -name "*.c" -exec grep -li string {} \;

Dan
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