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by **Rajesh Gupt** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 18:40:05

Hi,

I have a very deep directory structure and finding it difficult to search a
symbol/text in a file. Is there a tool/script available which will search
all the files in all the directory ? I know one such tool is glimpse but
unfortunately that is not free.

Thanks

Rajesh Gupta

by **Yury Petro** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 20:18:10

Try 'find' with '-exec grep <your reg exp> {} \;' as one of find's actions

> Hi,

> I have a very deep directory structure and finding it difficult to search a
> symbol/text in a file. Is there a tool/script available which will search
> all the files in all the directory ? I know one such tool is glimpse but
> unfortunately that is not free.

> Thanks

> Rajesh Gupta

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YP

by **William Morri** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 20:23:50

> I have a very deep directory structure and finding it difficult to search a
> symbol/text in a file. Is there a tool/script available which will search
> all the files in all the directory ? I know one such tool is glimpse but
> unfortunately that is not free.

Rajesh

You might use "find", for example:

find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep text

Regards
--
William Morris

by **Nils O. Sel?sda** » Sat, 02 Jun 2001 20:30:59

Quote:> Hi,

> I have a very deep directory structure and finding it difficult to
search a
> symbol/text in a file. Is there a tool/script available which will
search
> all the files in all the directory ? I know one such tool is glimpse
but
> unfortunately that is not free.

grep -r tst * will search for tst in all the files in all the subdirs
of the current directory.

by **Josef Moeller** » Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:10:04

> Try 'find' with '-exec grep <your reg exp> {} \;' as one of find's actions

Append "-print" after the \; to get the name of the file which matched.
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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize
-- T. Pratchett

by **Rajesh Gupt** » Sun, 03 Jun 2001 13:58:29

Thanks for all the answers. I was not knowing that available tools could be
so powerful. Probably because I am new to unix environment.

In between my grep does not understand -r option :)

regards
Rajesh Gupta

> > Hi,

> > I have a very deep directory structure and finding it difficult to
> search a
> > symbol/text in a file. Is there a tool/script available which will
> search
> > all the files in all the directory ? I know one such tool is glimpse
> but
> > unfortunately that is not free.
> grep -r tst * will search for tst in all the files in all the subdirs
> of the current directory.

by **Nils O. Sel?sda** » Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:49:36

Quote:> Thanks for all the answers. I was not knowing that available tools
could be
> so powerful. Probably because I am new to unix environment.

> In between my grep does not understand -r option :)

Ok, i'm used to the GNU/Linux version of grep ;)

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