Re: a grep question
"justin cunningham" <jcunningham@engine8.com> writes:
> Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an
> ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep
> options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Conversely i can go into /site.com/cgi-bin then cat any.cgi | grep
> 10.0.0.1
>
> and will get the desired result but instead of doing this for 'every
> file' in 'every folder' I want to search for the 10.ip in the files from
> the site's root directory.
>
Ummm... how many files are in the directory? It's gonna take _much_
longer to grep through 1,000 files than to grep through just one.
My suggestion? Patience is a virtue ;-)
HTH
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