topic grep and find in Operating System - Linux

grep and find

Jessica Chou — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:51:45 GMT

Hi!
How do I look for a pattern from a directory and its sub dir?

Thankx
Jessica

PS:
find -type file | xargs grep

works fine on HP but not on Linux.

Re: grep and find

Jessica Chou — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:54:19 GMT

Sorry, a typo in my previous mail.
the command i type should be

find -type f | xargs grep

(but not "file" after -type"

Jessica

Re: grep and find

Frank Reifenstahl — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:05:45 GMT

Hi Jessica,

I tried - and it works! What's your problem? Any error messages?

Bye
Frank

Re: grep and find

Dave Kelly_1 — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:38:40 GMT

Try

find /directory -type file -exec grep -i {} ;

Re: grep and find

Dave Kelly_1 — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:39:28 GMT

Apologies for previous post (problems with missing slashes)

Try

find /directory -type file -exec grep -i {} \;

Re: grep and find

Jessica Chou — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:26:39 GMT

Hi!
find ./dir1 -type f -exec grep -i test1 {} ;

works fine. Thank you.

Jessica
PS: On Linux
find ./dir1 -type f | xargs grep test1
gave me the error message as:
grep: invalid option -- .
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.