grep file in the subdirectory

[O'lnes]

The 'grep' function can only use in the current directory, how to grep file into the subdirectory ? Thx.

[Stefan Farrelly]

To grep in all files in all subdirs;

grep */
or
grep /

[Christian Gebhardt]

You can use "find":

find . -type f -exec grep -i pattern {} \;


This instruction searches in all subdirectories, in all files the pattern "pattern" (lower and upper cases)

Christian

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

find /var -name '*' -exec grep -i -l '15AUG00 16:38' {} \; > /tmp/output_file

This will find all files contained within the /var directory (and any subdirectories). Notice that the wildcard * is enclosed in single quotes. The output of the find is sent to a grep with a -i (case insensitive) and -l (ell) switch. The -l swich is necessary as this causes the grep to return the name of the file in which the search text was found (as opposed to simply returning a copy of the line itself).

In the above example, I have searched for the string '15AUG00 16:38' (note the single quotes again around the string) and sent the output to a file called /tmp/output_file.


Regards

Steve

[O'lnes]

It is OK, thx help.