Thanks Mark!  That did the trick!

John

At 11/20/98 12:06 PM , you wrote:
>John Korb writes:
>> I'm trying to do a "grep" on all files in a particular directory and all
>> its subdirectories and I'm running into some problems.  Perhaps one of the
>> POSIX gurus knows a solution.  Here is what I have tried (and what I've
>> learned):
>
>...deletia...
>
>> o  I know that "ls -Rx1 /COMM/DOC/html" will generate a list of files
>>    in the directory and its subdirectories, but it doesn't produce a
>>    list of "fully-qualified" file names.  Instead, it lists the directory
>>    name and then lists the files in that directory, then a blank line,
>>    then the next directory name, then the list of files in that directory,
>>    etc.  This is not suitable for "xargs" and "grep".
>>
>> Okay, what am I overlooking?  How can I get "ls" to give me the kind of
>> file listing that the "listfile,6" command (above) gives me (or is there a
>> different command I should be using)?
>
>You want to use "find" instead of "ls":
>
>       find /COMM/DOC/html -type f | xargs grep searchstring
>
>The -type f says to return just files; the default is files *and*
directories.
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