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Old 05-14-2012
How to recursively search for a list of keywords in a given directory?
Hi all,
how to recursively search for a list of keywords in a given directory??

for example:
suppose i have kept all the keywords in a file called "procnamelist" (in separate line)
and i have to search recursively in a directory called "target/dir"

if i am not doing recursive search then the below command is working.
Code:
fgrep -if  procnamelist target/dir/*

but when i am using the below command for the recursive search, its throwing error as "bad option -r"
Code:
fgrep -rif  procnamelist target/dir/*

or
Code:
fgrep -Rif  procnamelist target/dir/*



not working.

please help .Smilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-14-2012 at 05:24 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
 
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