command-line way to search contents of files

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

Re: command-line way to search contents of files

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

RE: command-line way to search contents of files

:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: command-line way to search contents of files 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