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Old 06-06-2011
Question Search current folder and subfolders with grep

Hello,

Neither ‘Grep -r' nor ‘grep -R' is working in my environment. (Searching for a text pattern in the files)

Any suggestions... Using SunOS 5.9

Thanks,
Trinanjan.
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Old 06-06-2011
Code:
find . -type f | xargs grep -l "pattern"

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