[wplug] need help with command
Mike Griffin
mike at dmrnetworks.com
Thu Sep 11 13:06:02 EDT 2003
grep -R word * from the parent directory that you wish you start at.
-R is for recursive.. man grep for specifics.
Mike
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 12:59 PM, Joe Topjian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need a command to run on a command line (or even a set of commands
> if you wanna toss it into a shell script).
>
> I want to be able to search a directory that has a various
> subdirectories and those have various subdirectories (and on and on)
> and grep a keyword from all the files in there. Not just the files in
> the final subdirectory, but all files in the directories going up the
> tree.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> ---
> Joe Topjian
> email: joe at portsys.net
> web: http://zaven.us
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