On 26-Aug-99 Miles wrote:
>How would I go about searching for an occurrence of a word in a folder
>with multiple subdirs, and have it search those subdirs recursively for
>the word as well? There isn't any '-R' flag or the like for grep, is there
>(a la cp -R or cmod -R)?
some distributions have rgrep installed, which is a very nice piece of kit. Much
better than the shagged up script around find and grep that i scraped together
at one stage.
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