Re: using grep inside 2 levels of directory

[Venkatesan Jeevanandam]

Hi,
To grep into files in multiple levels of directory, use

find . -name "*.ext" |xargs grep -i 

I think this will be useful.

Regards,
Venkat

Venkatesan Jeevanandam wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I used the command the way you specified, but I am getting the below
> error.
> /tools/oss/packages/x86_64-rhel4/findutils/default/bin/find: missing
> argument to `-exec'
> 
> Thanks,
> Venkat.
> 
> 
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> 
>> Venkatesan Jeevanandam wrote:
>>> I have to grep for "text" inside a directory for files "*.soc".
>>> ...
>>> I want to search for "text" using grep command for all *.soc files in
>>> all
>>> "arch*/core*" folders.
>>> I tried like this, but it doesnt help me.
>>> 
>>> $pwd
>>> /home/venkat/project
>>> $grep */*/*soc (not working)
>> 
>> I don't see a pattern there.  In which case grep will use the first
>> expanded filename as the pattern.  Perhaps you meant to use this:
>> 
>>   grep PATTERN */*/*soc
>> 
>>> I want to grep in files like, using one command.
>>> arch1/core1/*.soc
>>> arch1/core2/*soc
>>> arch1/core3/*soc
>>> arch2/core1/*soc
>> 
>> I would use find rather than the shell to select the files and then
>> have find call grep.
>> 
>>   find . -name "*.soc" -exec grep PATTERN {} +
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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