[plug] Limits of grep?

[Leon Brooks]

Subba Rao wrote:
> I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for
> some strings in these files.

    find /path/to/dir -exec grep -H {} \;

Type ``man find'' to discover how to limit it to one directory level (it
recurses by default), do ordinary files only, date ranges etc etc ad
headspinnum...

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