grep and find

[Jessica Chou]

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.

[Jessica Chou]

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

find -type f | xargs grep

(but not "file" after -type"

Jessica

[Frank Reifenstahl]

Hi Jessica,

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

Bye
Frank

[Dave Kelly_1]

Try

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

[Dave Kelly_1 · Accepted solution]

Apologies for previous post (problems with missing slashes)

Try

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

[Jessica Chou]

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.