[wplug] need help with command

[Mark Dalrymple]

> I was man'n in the wrong place: find

Find will work too, if you're on a platform that
doesn't support grep -R.

% cd directory
% find . -type f -exec grep "*stuff*" {} \; -print

and here it is broken down:

find .   : start looking in this directory, and any subdirectories
-type f  : match files, as opposed to directories
-exec    : for each file, run this command
grep "*stuff*" {} : the {} gets expanded to the file 'find' is looking at
\;       : end of the command.  the backslash keeps the shell from
           eating the semicolon
-print   : show the matching file names

Do it a couple of hundred times, and it becomes
second nature :-)

++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
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