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To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: recursive grep 
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:54:20 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: I would like add options for recursive searching 
: (grep -R foo /usr/include). 

find /usr/local | xargs grep foo

Why do we need another wart on grep?  Especially when what you may
want is find /usr/local -name \*f.h | xargs grep foo :-)

Warner