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Re: Question about version of GREP
- To: "Frazer, Ryan" <RYAN dot FRAZER at ca dot com>
- Subject: Re: Question about version of GREP
- From: Kurt Roeckx <Q at ping dot be>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:39:51 +0200
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <2D0C70C401A8D311A7CD009027AA3D7E06091A2F@usilms06.ca.com>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:24:46PM -0400, Frazer, Ryan wrote:
>
> What I will ask, however, is can I update the version of GREP that came with Cygwin? I'd like to be able to use GREP to looking into subdirecties as well. I saw a GREP v2.0 that had added this functionality. I found it at http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/grep.html.
>From what I get, it's based on GNU grep 2.0, the latest being
2.4.2. GUN grep 2.0 itself is from 1996, maybe he really should upgrade. :)
You can probably patch grep to do the same, but there are other
ways you can do the same:
find . -type f | xargs grep string
grep string `find . -type f`
Kurt
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