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Recursive Grep On Multiple File Types

Date: 19/4/2007

This is how I script a recursive grep for source code:

find . \( -iname "*.cpp" -or -iname "*.h" \) -exec grep -nH "$1" {} \;

There might be a way of automating the list of extensions to search, or letting the user supply that in a command line argument but my script foo is not up to converting that to the argument format required by "find".

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