[NTLUG:Discuss] grep in subdirs

[Fred James]

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.
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> I tried :
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> 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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find . -type f  | xargs file  | grep -i text | cut -f1 -d: | grep xml | 
xargs grep -i abc
Maybe

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