Sorry I missed the original, but try rgrep = recursive grep.
Willie
> Robert> Also, is there a way to perform a comprehensive search for
> Robert> a particular text string throughout a directory structure?
> Robert> Sort of like a global grep command....as opposed to using
> Robert> grep on one file at a time...
>
>Personally I use "M-x grep-find" under Emacs, which makes this
>relatively easy. Otherwise you can have some incantation using
>find(1), something like this:-
>
>find . -type f -print | xargs grep -n -e string-to-find | less
>
>If you only wanted to search C files and not object files for example,
>you might use this instead:-
>
>find . -name \*.c -type f -print | xargs grep -n -e string-to-find | less
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