Checkout the glimpse package it comes with S.u.S.E. It's an interesting
program and has a feature called agrep. It basically builds an index using
glimpseindex and can search entire filesystems for words etc.
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope somebody can help me.
>
> I have to search all the files in a directory and its subdirectories
> and their subdirectories for a string.
>
> I can search a directory at a time with fgrep 'string' *.*, but this is
> taking ages to do for every dirictory.
>
> Is their a way to grep recursively through the directories? I could
> not find anything like that in the manual.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nico
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