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Proud user of Ubuntu 9.1 - 64 On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Suresh Kumar Subramanian < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > How to find the text from a file(directory & subdirectory). (recursive > search) > > Ex : > Directories : > /prog > /prog/sub1/ > /prog/sub1/dir1/ > /prog/sub2/ > > Each folder contains some text files. > > I want to search a "text" from all the files in the directory /prog and > subdirectories. > > I tried > cat * | grep "text" But it searches only the current directory also it not > lists the filename. > > How do I do this > > Thanks > Suresh > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
