From 709a997bed25f14e7db554e6f9d031e22593bc21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Camilla Krag Jensen Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:41:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add an explanation of recursive search. --- osx/grep.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/osx/grep.md b/osx/grep.md index 738066ba1..cef3d8e5b 100644 --- a/osx/grep.md +++ b/osx/grep.md @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ `grep {{something}} {{file_path}}` +- search recursively in current directory for an exact string + +`grep -r {{something}} .` + - use a regex `grep -e {{^regex$}} {{file_path}}`