Recursive Grep

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Recursive Grep

An alternate method of recursive grep for systems (such as AIX apparently) where grep does not have a -r parameter.

{{{find . | xargs grep <searchstring>}}}

Add -print0 parameter to find if filenames will have spaces.

{{{find -print0 . | xargs grep <searchstring>}}}