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grep search in multiple dirs
Name: covina Date: February 22, 2007 at 11:22:28 Pacific OS: AIX 5.3 CPU/Ram: 512 Product: IBM
Comment:
Need help to grep for a string in each and every files in multiple folders just like the find command works find ./ -name abc.txt -print
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print|xargs grep string
xargs is more efficient because -exec spawns a new shell each time it executes. Also, in the past -exec has overflowed the buffer if lots of files were found. Most modern *nixes won't do that now.
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Response Number 2
Name: covina Date: February 23, 2007 at 08:00:21 Pacific
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