recursive grep

William A. Turnbow williamt at athena1.Sun.COM
Wed Aug 23 06:18:35 AEST 1989


Here is a short quicky (I hope).  I am trying to do the following:

find . -type d -exec grep string {}/* \;


However, find apparently does not expand the braces unless they are
separated by spaces.  I've tried a variety of quotes and backslashes,
but no go.

I've always ended up writing a tiny shell script in the past to do this,
but there's got to be some easy way I'm missing.

email is fine...

Thanks

-wat-



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