Re: tlug: Grep for subdirectories?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Neil Booth wrote:

> How do I get grep to search recursively through subdirectories? I
> haven't been able to find a way of searching anything but the current
> directory.

try:

find . -type f | xargs grep 'substring'

that will recursively find everything starting at '.', the current
directory, and grep it for 'substring'.  the '-type f' means look through
regular files only.  Add '-follow' before '-type f' if you want it to
follow symlinks, too (useful when grepping through header files in
/usr/include).

> 
> Thanks, 
> 
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