Taking Grep to a Lower Level

Tony Wasson plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:25:30 -0700


> The general question is:
> 
> * How can 'grep' be asked to work like  'ls -R' -- i.e., to search
>   in all files in the current directory, and all directories under it?

Ahhh! I think we've seen 2 answers -- 
1) With old version of grep use    find | grep or find -exec grep 
2) With newer versions of grep use grep -r