Grep Guru

[Frank Shute]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:34:20PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:23:19PM +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
> >
> > On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> > >> I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ 
> > >> and down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them.
> > >> Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks,
> > > 
> > > I expect you need something like:
> > > 
> > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep pattern
> > 
> > Or install the GNU grep (from the man)
> > 
> > -R, -r, --recursive
> > Read all  files  under  each  directory,  recursively;  this  is
> > equivalent to the -d recurse option.
> > 
> 
> What's gained from GNU grep? FreeBSD grep, automatically recurses in
> to each subdir unless given the -maxdepth option.
> 
> Looks like FreeBSD grep wins (one less argument needed) ;)

Sorry, got confused between grep and xargs!

> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Frank 
> 

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