Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 20:40:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905302039540.19619@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <p06240823c6471d0dd353@[10.0.0.10]> References: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <20090530183239.a6755d97.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905301843550.19030@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <p06240823c6471d0dd353@[10.0.0.10]>
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> <make-a-list> | while read x; do <pretty-much-whatever> "$x"; done > > which should get around the list length limitations and > provides for doing "extras" between the "do" and the "done". > Specifically: > > find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print | \ > while read x; do grep "expression" "$x"; done same as -exec works but forks a process for each single file - slow -exec and + or xargs do the job
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