Hi Nico,
You might want to try:
<cd to the directory below which you want to search>
find . -type f -print | xargs grep 'string'
or
find . -type f -print | xargs grep 'string' /dev/null
Kind Regards,
Mike.
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> Subject: [SuSE Linux] grep recursive
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> 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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