[KLUG Members] recursive directory searches without grep

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
28 Aug 2001 13:10:47 -0400


>My linux box supports the -r option with grep to search directories 
>recursively.  My Unix box does not support this option for grep.
>Does anyone know of a replacement for the grep -r  command.  I will 
>be using this in a Korn shell script.

You might want to try "grep -d recurse"

Otherwise you can grab the source for grep and compile it for your UNIX
platform.  I did this on AIX all the time,  as the GNU utilities
typically stomp all over the propritary UNIX utilities.