[NTLUG:Discuss] grep in subdirs

[Victor Brilon]

Both of those won't work because the *.xml wildcard notation isn't 
passed by the shell to the recursive processes.

Try something like this:

find dir1 dir2 -name '*.xml' -exec grep -i 'abc' {} /dev/null \;

Victor

Pervaz Allaudin wrote:
> OK a basic question.
> 
> I am trying to do a grep in xml files and I want it to do all the subdirs.
> 
> I tried :
> 
> grep -r -i abc *.xml
> grep -d recurse abc *.xml
> and various other combinations.
> 
> but it does not work and I cannot figure out why.
> 
> Any ideas.
> 
> Pervaz
> 
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