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Old 09-15-2005
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grep in /

Hello,

I'd like to make a grep over all files between / directory and all directories between recursively.

When I made grep 'myexpression' / or
grep 'myexpression' * or something like this it returns me nothing
while I know there's at least one file containing my expression

Can someone help me ???

Many thanks in advance
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Did you try this ?

Code:
grep -r 'myexpression' /
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sorry I tried but -r is not a valid option for grep
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The '-r' option probably is available only on GNU grep. Try this:
Code:
find / -type f -exec grep 'myexpression' {} \;
This will go through every file on the system and do a grep on each one.
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