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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:39:51 +0200
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q AT ping DOT be>
To: "Frazer, Ryan" <RYAN DOT FRAZER AT ca DOT com>
Cc: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Question about version of GREP
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:24:46PM -0400, Frazer, Ryan wrote:
> 
> What I will ask, however, is can I update the version of GREP that came with Cygwin?  I'd like to be able to use GREP to looking into subdirecties as well.  I saw a GREP v2.0 that had added this functionality.  I found it at http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/grep.html.

From what I get, it's based on GNU grep 2.0, the latest being
2.4.2. GUN grep 2.0 itself is from 1996, maybe he really should upgrade. :)

You can probably patch grep to do the same, but there are other
ways you can do the same:

find . -type f | xargs grep string
grep string `find . -type f`


Kurt


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