[wplug] need help with command

[Lance Tost]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Joe Topjian wrote:

> > grep -R word *   from the parent directory that you wish you start at. 
> > -R is for recursive..   man grep for specifics.
> 
> woo! thanks  :)
> I was man'n in the wrong place: find

You could do it with find too.  Plus, the find/xargs way will work on 
other flavors of unix (at least Solaris):

find /parent/dir -print | xargs grep searchstring

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>