Here is the classical way to do a recursive grep.
For csh/tcsh, define the alias
alias rgrep 'find . -type f -print | xargs egrep -i \!* /dev/null'
For bash/zsh, define the shell function
rgrep() { find . -type f -print | xargs egrep -i $1 /dev/null}
There are several variations of these
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, jason dictos wrote:
>I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for
> files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't
> always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error
> "Argument list too long").
jason dictos wrote:
Hi All,
I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for
files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't
always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error
"Argument list too long").
Is there a more e