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How can I search a string from every file in every
subdirectory? I can search a string by using grep command,
but it is only for the files in the current directory,
anyway I can go down to subdir? I tryed to use pipe, but did
not work.

Thanks in advance for your help

Y Huang

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find ./ | xargs grep 'your-string-here' /dev/null

Be careful, this can produce a lot of output if there are a lot of
matches.

man find
man xargs
man grep

Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

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find ./ | grep 'your-string-here'

or make a script called f and put this in it:

find ./ | grep $1

and use it like this:

f 'your string here'

find  . -name "*.h" | xargs grep string_2_find

On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:31:30 -0700, yhuang

Quote:>   How can I search a string from every file in every
>   subdirectory? I can search a string by using grep command,
>   but it is only for the files in the current directory,
>   anyway I can go down to subdir? I tryed to use pipe, but did
>   not work.

rgds,
mitch

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