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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: recursive grep 
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:31:37 -0800
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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 \;