Coran Fisher aka The Doctor wrote:
> 
> I have a silly question on grep usage.  I'm interested in a way for
> grep to search the content of files in directory chains. I was wondering
> if someone could clue me in on a way to do this either with a switch I haven't
> figured out or by piping if necessary.  I have used find piped with grep to
> search for files so I am aware of this particular ability.
> 
> Thanks!
> Coran

Check out the (excellent) perl script `gf' by David Coppit.  It can be
found at:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/index.html

There is also a program called `rgrep'.

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