"justin cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? > > Conversely i can go into /site.com/cgi-bin then cat any.cgi | grep > 10.0.0.1 > > and will get the desired result but instead of doing this for 'every > file' in 'every folder' I want to search for the 10.ip in the files from > the site's root directory. >
Ummm... how many files are in the directory? It's gonna take _much_ longer to grep through 1,000 files than to grep through just one. My suggestion? Patience is a virtue ;-) HTH
