How to grep recursively on Solaris

Kim Klotz

October 10, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

grep -r doesn't work on Solaris. You can only grep on files in the current directory.

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A workaround is to use grep with find:

find ./ -type f -exec grep "foo" {} +

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Posted by Kim Klotz to makandra dev (2011-10-10 17:42)