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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: falk AT gmx DOT de (Falk Friedrich), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:45:03 +0000
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Subject: Re: subdirectories (was: ANNOUNCE: Grep 2.1 uploaded)
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falk AT gmx DOT de (Falk Friedrich) wrote:

> (eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com) wrote:
> >Apropos grep,  I didn't find an option for 'grepping' also in
> >subdirectories.
> >Do I have to specify the dirs in the command line ?
> >Is there any tool that does it  (with or without grep) ?
> Use gnu find  btw.  find(1) and xargs(1)
> 
> Example:
> find . -type f -name "*.txt" |xargs grep -Ei "anything" |less

Good for UNIX, not for DOS ;-)

Next release of SET's editor will include a Grep dialog with a switch to make 
it recursive (just a click ;-)

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