Try: (untested)
find . -exec fgrep pattern {} /dev/null \;
which should find files under the current directory and do a 'fgrep' on
them.
Check out the manual page for find(1).
Hope that helps.
Paul Abraham
--
speaking for myself.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 07:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SuSE Linux] grep recursive
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope somebody can help me.
>
> I have to search all the files in a directory and its subdirectories
> and their subdirectories for a string.
>
> I can search a directory at a time with fgrep 'string' *.*, but this
> is
> taking ages to do for every dirictory.
>
> Is their a way to grep recursively through the directories? I could
> not find anything like that in the manual.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nico
>
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