<quote who="Christopher JS Vance"> > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 11:12:22PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>>how do i run a grep across all logs, as in 'grep a-string /home/*/logs/*' > > If the logs are all immediately in the relevant logs directory, what > you've typed in your question is a good start. If the logs appear at > different directory depths, then maybe you need find and xargs. Say > something like > > find /home/*.*/logs -type f | xargs grep a-string thanks, Christopher yes, they are all same depth, but., my string failed with: # grep "elite" /home/*/logs/* bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long yours seems to work, though, thanks -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
