Wildcard-specs

[lacasse at RAND-UNIX.arpa]

To grep all files in the directories immediately below you, use
    grep strings */*
For another level, use:
    grep strings */*/*

If you run over N characters (about 8K on 4.2BSD I think) in the expansion
of the total file name list, you will have to break it up.  (You get the
message "argument list too long".)  The ** symbolics uses won't do it.

Some commands (e.g. rm, chgrp, chown, chmod[4.3 only] ) have a -r flag
that does a recursive descent.

If you have all day, you can use:
    find . -exec grep string {} \;
which will do a recursive descent from where you are, but starts a lot
of new processes along the way.

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