Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER writes:
>
> Does grep by default transverse subdirectories of the file arg? Can this
> be changed?

Recursion is the default.  To suppress it, use "-level 0".

> Would find ./ -exec grep JOB {} also work for what is discussed below?
>
> If you are grepping for job statements, I use grep !JOB
> /ACCOUNT/JOBGROUPS/*. I haven't had that 'blow my buffer' yet.

How about:

        find /ACCOUNT/JOBGROUPS -level 0 -type f -exec grep ^!JOB {} \;

The "-type f" ignores the group directory name, ^!JOB says it must occur at
the start of the line, and the delimiting semicolon must be escaped with a
backslash or else the shell would try and interpret it instead of the find
command.
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