You may be interested in "locate". It reads a dB that is updated every night with a complete file index. There is a man page. You can re-run the dB update by running "updatedb", but that can take a few minutes depending on the speed of your machine. It's usually pretty fast. So I run updatedb when I've just installed something new and I want to find files in it. Regards, - Harper Harper Mann Groundwork Open Source Solutions 510-599-2075 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rigler, Stephen C. Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:26 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: Recursive Searches For something like that I'd use "find" instead of ls. find . -name \*.php or find /some/path -name \*.php "locate" is also an option, but it won't catch files that were created since updatedb last ran. If you were trying to recursively search for a string in a file use grep like: grep -r "some string" . or grep -r "some string" /some/path -Steve -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cutts III, James H. Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:47 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Recursive Searches I'm trying to get Recursive searches working on my RH9 box. Recursion works for neither ls no grep. I've tried, for example, ls -R *.php and ls --recursive *.php And all I see is the current directory. I know there are numerous *.php files in the subdirectories. I've also been through the range of grep recursive options, -R, -r, --recursive and --directories=recurse Anyone have any suggestions? Is there some setting somewhere which has disabled the recursive search? Thanks very much. James H. Cutts III Computer Project Manager Contracting and Organizational Research Institute University of Missouri - Columbia 143C Mumford Hall Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-6181 E-mail: cuttsj@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
