need to search (grep) multiple directories

red_nexus · 07-04-2006, 04:15 PM

looking for oracle forms .fmb files want to look through a directory and all its sub directories.

grep '*\.fmb' works for CWD but how to get it to look through sub directories?

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jstephens84 · 07-04-2006, 04:19 PM

What distro are you using?

red_nexus · 07-04-2006, 04:22 PM

Not sure as I'm on a network but i think the server is Suse linux running oracle.

jstephens84 · 07-04-2006, 04:40 PM

So you can't obtain root permissions I take it.

Vgui · 07-04-2006, 04:48 PM

Code:

grep -R "some text" base-dir/

The -R switch means "recursive" and will dig into the subdirectories as you want.

red_nexus · 07-04-2006, 10:44 PM

Thanks all sorted now.