Re: grep question

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 20:49 -0600, Charlie Brune wrote:
> > What is the correct Bash command to search for all occurrences
> > of 'this_string' in all files in a folder and its sub-folders?
> 
> How about:
> 
>      find -type f -exec grep -H "this_string" \;
> 
> The "-H" grep option will show the name of the file.

Charlie,

I think the simplest method would be:
$ grep "this_string" -d recurse *      <-- with the "" double quotes

This returns:
path_to/filename:<echo of a line containing this_string>
...

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
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