find . -type f |xargs grep "find this text" Justin Coyne <jcoyne at software.umn.edu> "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > Greet the sun all: > > Within Unix, what does one use to quickly scan text files for a > particular pattern? I need to scan a large amount of *.HTML files for a > pattern. I though about Awk, is there a good Awk site with examples > somebody could recommend. I asked Google but there is more garbarge that > useful links. I know somebody will recommend Perl but I haven't used > Perl in five years and I am just looking for something along the lines > of "text-finder-pgm -R (for recursion) 'cgi-bin' *.html" > > Thank you, > > -- > Perry Hoekstra > E-Commerce Architect > Talent Software Services > perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com > t_perlExists = false; > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >