[Scottish] Best way to find text within files recursively?

iain d broadfoot scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Jan 18 19:19:01 2003


* scottish+Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk (scottish+Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> > for (every folder in this directory)
> > 	grep -l myfriend@somewhere.org *
> 
> Would "grep -rl myfriend@somewhere.org *" do what you want?
> 

yep, it sure does. :D

i'd add -i and quotes around the email, just for added goodness..

iain

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