On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 04:46:38PM +0100, 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)?
The latest version of GNU grep has the "-r" option for recursive greps as
well, so you might want to install that.
HTH,
Thomas
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