Re: how to ask grep to search specific file recurisively?

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On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM, loody <miloody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all:
> "grep 'test' *.h" will search pattern "test" in all header file at the
> current folder.
> if I want grep do the same thing recursively, I try to use "grep -r
> 'test' *.h" and it complains no *.h such file.
> Would anyone know how to use grep to search specific file recursively?

This is really not a kernel question......but anyway the following
command should be good enough for you.

find . -name '*.h' -exec grep test {} /dev/null \;

Thanks -
Manish


> appreciate your help,
> miloody
>
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