Searching file contents.

[bigdaddy01]

Does any one know how to recursivly search through the contents of files and directories using grep ? I thought there was a switch to recursivly search ?

I am searching for the hostname of a unix machine in many subdir's.

I have looked at at fgrep and egrep and they seem to have the same switches..



Paul.

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi Paul,

find . -type f -print | xargs grep -i [PATTERN]

will search recurively for a pattern - taken from the Bigadmin site. Regards.

 

[KenCunningham]

Also (found in a newsgroup):

find . -name 'pattern' -exec grep pattern '{}' /dev/null \;

The /dev/null causes grep to think it is searching two filesand gives the proper
file: textoutput as one would get when grepping many files in single directory.

Cheers.