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malladisk

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Hi, How do you use grep to find files for a word such that the search includes subdirectories?
Thanks,
Sashi
 
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[tt]grep[/tt] accepts an argument of [tt]-r[/tt] to make it recursive, hence digging through files in subdirectories.

//Daniel
 
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