Re: grep a string in subdirectories

[netawater]

william.a.george@gmail.com writes:

> Hi.
> My problem is When I type this:
> find . | xargs grep test
> Then i get the message:
> xargs cannot fork.
>
> I'm using "UnixUtils" commands on windows XP... Can anybody help me to
> find a solution to my problem.

Please make a script like this:

find ../ -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -H $1 '{}' ';'

it works very well in my Linux machine.