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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