find in conjuction with grep
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Aug 11 18:51:20 UTC 2004
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Kevin Old um 20:31:
>
>> I've been using
>> find . -exec grep "phrase I want" {} \;
>
> Not the best way. Using -exec is problematic.
why problematic? (although it's not the way i'd do it, anyway.) if
one insisted on using find and -exec, at the very least, restrict your
search to regular files:
$ find . -type f -exec grep "phrase" {} \;
but with grep and "-r", there's little reason to get "find" involved.
rday
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