On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Mipam wrote:

> Anyway uses something else other then "grep -r" to search for a string
> in a series of files and underlaying subdirs?

ff ()
{
    find ${PWD} ! -name tags -xdev -printx | xargs grep -l $1 |  LESS=+/$1 xargs less
}

"ff" stands for "fast find". I do "ff foo", and then [ESC]nnn...
views every instance of "foo" in every file that has "foo".


Frederick