Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:31:37 -0800 From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recursive grep Message-ID: <199601230131.RAA11361@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:54:20 MST." <199601222354.QAA01113@rover.village.org>
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> : I would like add options for recursive searching
> : (grep -R foo /usr/include).
>
> find /usr/local | xargs grep foo
>
> Why do we need another wart on grep? Especially when what you may
> want is find /usr/local -name \*f.h | xargs grep foo :-)
>
> Warner
and why do we need an extra pipe, either?
find /usr/include -name \*f.h -exec grep foo {} /dev/null \;
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