Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 12:32:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian M. Clapper" <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recursive grep. Message-ID: <199607141632.MAA00434@current.willscreek.com> In-Reply-To: <30332740@toto.iv>
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>>>>> "David" == David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes:
David> I've always used with success:
David> find <tree-root> -type f -exec grep -l <pattern> {} \;
David> usually use "grep -il ..." but you get the idea.
The `xargs' solution is typically faster, as it will invoke fewer instances
of `grep'. Using find's `-exec' parameter will result in an invocation of
`grep' for each file found.
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