Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 23:07:51 -0600 (CST) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using the find command Message-ID: <199712220507.XAA05231@detlev.UUCP>
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(Apologies to threaders)
>> 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 {} \;
This is less efficient than
grep string `find . -print`
Also note that '-name *' is redundant in find.
Cheers,
joelh
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