Re: OT Grep Help

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2008


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Try using the grep within a listfiles context? This will recursively traverse all the files in a given directory keyed on [IsFile]. Marc Donovan Brooke wrote: > Hello, > > ..was wondering if anyone is out there that knows a lil grep. > > I'm trying to recursively search a directory/s for a pattern.. then > list the filename, linenumber, then the line. > > I have the latter part working.. in other words, I can list > the filename, linenumber then the string, but I can't get > the recursive directories working. > > This works for one file: > > grep -Hin -e [pattern] [filename] > > How do you tweek this to do many files within a directory? > > Donovan > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------- Marc Thompson Software Engineer Office of Information Technology University of Utah 801.585.9264 marc.thompson@utah.edu ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: OT Grep Help ( Donovan Brooke 2008)
  2. Re: OT Grep Help ( Marc Thompson 2008)
  3. Re: OT Grep Help ( Donovan Brooke 2008)
  4. Re: OT Grep Help ( Marc Thompson 2008)
  5. OT Grep Help ( Donovan Brooke 2008)
Try using the grep within a listfiles context? This will recursively traverse all the files in a given directory keyed on [IsFile]. Marc Donovan Brooke wrote: > Hello, > > ..was wondering if anyone is out there that knows a lil grep. > > I'm trying to recursively search a directory/s for a pattern.. then > list the filename, linenumber, then the line. > > I have the latter part working.. in other words, I can list > the filename, linenumber then the string, but I can't get > the recursive directories working. > > This works for one file: > > grep -Hin -e [pattern] [filename] > > How do you tweek this to do many files within a directory? > > Donovan > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------- Marc Thompson Software Engineer Office of Information Technology University of Utah 801.585.9264 marc.thompson@utah.edu ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Marc Thompson

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