Hi! Suppose I have a directory (no symbolic links) called /WORK that contains 3 subdirectories:
/A
/B
/C

My problem is this: I want to look for a file that contains an order number. So far, I obtain what I want by doing this

[acb@k9]/home/acb% cd /WORK/A
[acb@k9]/home/acb/WORK/A% grep '093023553' *.*
[acb@k9]/home/acb/WORK/A% cd ..
[acb@k9]/home/acb% cd /WORK/B
[acb@k9]/home/acb/WORK/B% grep '093023553' *.* ...etc

There's got to be a better way to do that, right? I believe I could do something like this to scan all my subdirectories:

[acb@k9]/home/acb/WORK/A% grep -"recursive" '093023553' *.*

Is GREP not suited for that? Should I use FIND instead?

Thanks in advance for helping!

Al.

Take a look at the following thread

grep recursive directories

Thanks, sssow! I used

find . -exec grep -l '093023553' {} \; -exec grep '093023553' {} \;

and it did a great trick: listed my files containing my order number and the location of my order number in the files themselves!!!

Thank you!!

Al.

fgrep */*/*/* 093023553
where * are your subdirectorys