On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Jacob Fugal wrote: > Many times I've run into a situation where I want to grep somethingin > every file of a particular type in a certain directory tree recursively. > For example, find all the html files (*.html filemask) containing > 'substr' in myDir/. > > I can write my own script to choose the files and then apply grep to > them, and I can apply a find/xargs combo, but I was just wondering if > anyone knew of some other elegant, 'shweet' way of doing this?
I don't have an elegant nor "shweet" way of doing it, but I found online somewhere this: grep 'substr' *.html */*.html (and even needed, another */*/*.html) which will work for 99% of the things you want to do. It's not elegant, by any definition of the word, but it's a quick hack and it's a few keystrokes shorter than your piping-to-egrep version. ~ ross ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
