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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