I'm trying to find a certain pattern but I'm wanting to search all of the
directories and the files within each of the directories. Is their a
command to do this? What I'm wanting to do is search for a tty pattern in
the files, for the profile directories, that are sitting in /home Any help
would be appreciated...

Mark

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:01:35 -0500, Mark McWilliams wrote:

> I'm trying to find a certain pattern but I'm wanting to search all of the
> directories and the files within each of the directories. Is their a
> command to do this? What I'm wanting to do is search for a tty pattern in
> the files, for the profile directories, that are sitting in /home Any help
> would be appreciated...

1. Install GNU grep
2. Use find and xargs:

$ find <path> -type f | xargs grep foo


Wil

Wil Cooley <wcooley@nakedape.cc> wrote:
WC> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:01:35 -0500, Mark McWilliams wrote:
WC>
>> I'm trying to find a certain pattern but I'm wanting to search all of the
>> directories and the files within each of the directories. Is their a
>> command to do this? What I'm wanting to do is search for a tty pattern in
>> the files, for the profile directories, that are sitting in /home Any help
>> would be appreciated...
WC>
WC> 1. Install GNU grep
WC> 2. Use find and xargs:
WC>
WC> $ find <path> -type f | xargs grep foo

Or, in 5.3, use `grep -r <pattern>' <== symlinks followed
`grep -R <pattern>' <== symlinks not followed

I do not think the stock AIX grep in 5.1 had this option, and I don't know
about 5.2.

--
"... I shook my family tree, and a bunch of NUTS fell out ..."

"Wil Cooley" <wcooley@nakedape.cc> wrote in message
newsan.2006.09.13.22.14.12.423333@nakedape.cc...
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:01:35 -0500, Mark McWilliams wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to find a certain pattern but I'm wanting to search all of the
>> directories and the files within each of the directories. Is their a
>> command to do this? What I'm wanting to do is search for a tty pattern
>> in
>> the files, for the profile directories, that are sitting in /home Any
>> help
>> would be appreciated...
>
> 1. Install GNU grep
> 2. Use find and xargs:
>
> $ find <path> -type f | xargs grep foo
>
>
> Wil

I'm using AIX 4.3.3 Will this not work?