Re: Grep Guru

[Matthew Seaman]

Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:

On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote:

I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ and down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them.

Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks,

I expect you need something like:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep pattern

Or install the GNU grep (from the man)

-R, -r, --recursive
Read all  files  under  each  directory,  recursively;  this  is
equivalent to the -d recurse option.

The system supplied grep(1) /is/ gnu grep:



Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

grep -r works just fine.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD

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