potato info

Tor Slettnes tor@slett.net
13 Jun 1999 17:18:16 -0700


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan DuBoff <aland@SoftOrchestra.com> writes:

    Alan> I was shying away from it as one person I know is running
    Alan> 2.0.x and his grep didn't have recursion in it. 

You'll want the "rgrep" package.

Another way is:
     find . -type f -exec grep -n "string to search for" {} /dev/null \;

(The /dev/null hack is to trick grep into believing it is dealing with 
more than one file at a time, and thus print the filename).


-tor