Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:52:55 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: kip@lyris.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: open files Message-ID: <19990615215254.A8122@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9906151058580.17109-100000@luna> References: <xzpemjeeyyj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.SOL.4.05.9906151058580.17109-100000@luna>
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kip@lyris.com wrote:
> find . -name "*" | xargs grep "SYSCTL\."
What's that backslash for? DES didn't tell you to put that in the
regular expression. Quite why you are typing `find . -name "*"' rather
than just `find .', is also unclear.
> find . -name "*" | xargs grep "SYSCTL\.*maxfiles"
Try,
find . | xargs grep "SYSCTL.*maxfiles"
(from /usr/src/sys of course)
> don't find anything, just searching for SYSCTL ends up searching through
> binaries.
Check grep(1) for what the "-a" option does.
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