[KLUG Members] recursive directory searches without grep

Patrick McGovern members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:30:56 -0400


>You might want to try "grep -d recurse"
Nope.  Not available either.
I may need to mess with find unless there is another choice.
Pat

>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.


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.

Good idea.
Pat
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