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[Brad Mears]

In article <1991Apr14.214414.9815 at hellgate.utah.edu>, mmoore%hellgate.utah.edu at cs.utah.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
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|> 	Does anyone know if there is an easy way to recursively search for a 
|> pattern down the entire file tree of a directory? 

Look at the -exec option on find.  This executes the specified command for each
file found.

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Brad Mears
dbm at deltahp.jsc.nasa.gov

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