On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Gaurav wrote:
> Hi All,
> I work on Solaris and if I do
> grep -ins 'pattern' `find . *`
> Then it fails if there is a large directory and subdirectories inside
> the current directory...and my grep is not having -r option...which is a
> quality of linux grep that it can recursively search directories(Wow!).
>
Really? Which distribution of Linux are you using? I use Debian,
and its grep doesnt have any recursive option.
> My question is that is there any way out....(script or command) using
> which I can grep under subdirectories
> without facing this problem again
>
find . -type f -exec grep <pattern> {} \;
...where <pattern> is the basic regular expression that you
specify for matching.
Regards,
Kenneth
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