I assume the -R option performs some kind of a recursive descent through
a source tree?  What can it do that the following does not?

#! /bin/sh
pattern="$1"
shift
if [ $# = 0 ]
then
	dirs="."
else
	dirs="$@"
fi
for d in "$dirs"
do
	find "$d" -type f -print | xargs grep "$pattern" /dev/null
done


If you're doing this kind of thing often, then you might also look into
the Glimpse indexing and search tools.


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Anyone knows where i can find source of grep -R to compile?
I really need it now here on my system to find stuff in source.
Any of you uses it?
Bye,

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