+----- On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:57:30 +0200, writes:
|
| 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.
It is a tradition in Unix to not build too much functionality into one
program but instead have them work together:
find . -type f -exec fgrep 'string' {} \;
or even better, especially if you have a lot of files:
find . -type f -print | xargs -e fgrep 'string'
/Michael
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