Miles asked
> 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)?
No, there isn't, but in the true Unix spirit, you glue multiple tools together to
do a job. In this particular case, you would do
grep target `find . -print`
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
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Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
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