How to do full text search in current and sub-directories?

[volcano]

Hi, I know I can do a full text search by the command "grep KEYWORD *" in current directory. But if I want to do that in sub-directories too, what should I type then? Thanks.

 

[PHV]

One way:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep KEYWORD

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[volcano]

Thank you!

 

[stefanwagner]

grep -R KEYWORD *

-R = recursive

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[KenCunningham]

Stefan, which flavour of grep gives you the -R option? I'm interested because none of the vanilla Solaris or AIX versions I have seem to support it. Thanks.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I have the GNU [tt]grep[/tt] 2.5.1, from SuSE 8.1's default installation. From it's man page :
-R, -r, --recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equivalent to the -d recurse option.

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[KenCunningham]

Thanks for that, I had a feeling that might be the case.

 

[stefanwagner]

GNU grep 2.5.1, too.

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