Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:20:58 +0100 From: Benoit Lacherez <blacherez@ac-bordeaux.fr> To: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep.... recursive searching Message-ID: <20020307162058.A27299@bisclavret.iris33.ac-bordeaux.f> In-Reply-To: <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com>; from mpd6334@cs.rit.edu on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:10:03AM -0500 References: <20020307101335.6460.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> <20020307091002.A45751@rochester.rr.com>
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mpd a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:13:35AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
> >
> > I'm reading up on grep... (thanks for the explaining the find command...
> > that let me move forward)... and i've noticed that while you can search
> > for a "regular expression" (did I use that right?) there is no mention of
> > any ability to do a recursive search.
> >
> > i checked the man page and seached for the "regular expression" (this will
> > be on a quiz tomorrow... that's why i'm using it so much :D ) "recursive"
> > but nothing came up.
> >
> > is there some uncomplicated way of doing a recursive search with grep?
> >
> > -Sameer
> >
>
> I'm more curious of a way to make it recurse through all the
> directories, but only try to match on certain files.
> Is this even possible with this version of grep? The fm (of
> rtfm fame) isn't giving me any epiphanies.
>
What about find ?
find . -name \*.c (or whatever condition(s) you like) -exec egrep -H 'pattern' {} \;
--
Benoit Lacherez
Académie de Bordeaux -- CATICE
Projet de traduction de la documentation de Python:
http://frpython.sourceforge.net/
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