check man perlrun im not sure what you're after, if it's just grep i'd suggest
find . -type f -exec grep foo {} \; if you wanna do something about foo find . -type f -exec perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' {} \; /Jon "Thomas S. Dixon" wrote: > > Greetings gurus, > I've worked with perl somewhat for the past year, but never via the > command line. I'd like to know if there's a short command-line way to > search a given directory (recursively) for files containing a certain > text string. I would think this would be some combination of a loop and > grep, but I'm not quite sure where to start. This is perl 5.6.0 running > on a linux system. > > Thanks, > Tommy > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]