[NTLUG:Discuss] grep in subdirs

[Steve Baker]

David Camm wrote:
> user rgrep - that's what it was written for. see the man page.

...and just to prove that there's always *another* way...

    grep abc `find . -name \*.xml -print`

(notice those are backwards quotes).

I prefer it over:

    find . -name \*.xml -exec grep abc

...because it lists the filenames that match the pattern.

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