01 Nov 07 Grep recursively through subdirectories
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
grep recursively through subdirectories for files that match a specific pattern:
grep -l -r –include=*.doc regex *
The equivalent command unsing find:
find . -name ‘*.doc’ -exec grep -l regex \{\} \;
The option after grep is the lowercase letter L, not the number 1).
Remove the -l to see the actual matches instead of the file names.
