Date: 22 Dec 97 07:38:49 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using the find command Message-ID: <6de_9712220828@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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At 22 Dec 97 06:07:51 Joel Ray Holveck wrote regarding Re: using the find command
>>> Can somebody give me the syntax for using the find command to search
>>> all the files in a tree for a specific string?
>> find . -name "*" -exec grep -l string {} \;
JR> This is less efficient than
JR> grep string `find . -print`
JR>
JR> Also note that '-name *' is redundant in find.
It is less efficient, because your version greps the filenames, while the problem was to grep the contents of the files
Leif Neland
leifn@image.dk
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