find in conjuction with grep

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 12.08.2004 schrieb Lew Bloch um 21:08:

> >>I've been using
> >>> find . -exec grep "phrase I want" {} \;
> > 
> > Not the best way. Using -exec is problematic.
> 
> How exactly is the -exec directive problematic?
> 
> I use "find ... -exec grep ..." a lot.  I also use the "find ... | xargs 
> grep ..." a lot.

Please see the thread discussion. It is already answered.

Alexander


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