Taking Grep to a Lower Level

[Eric Andresen]

You could try doing a recursive find and piping it through xargs grep
'ComputerName'.

ex:
find /etc | xargs grep 'ComputerName'

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 15:26, George Gambill wrote:
> Need to change the "computer name" without reloading RH 7.2.
> 
> Looking at the man pages for Grep, it (grep) seems to only look in the
> current directory.
> 
> How can I grep 'ComputerName' through all subdirectories?
> 
> Thnx
> 
> 
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