Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:14:06 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Raphael Becker <rabe@uugrn.org> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Grep Guru Message-ID: <ED230E00-A042-469F-BCEB-8DCAA0EA76DE@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <20080608225023.GD54922@ma.sigsys.de> References: <484C3CC4.7050107@webrz.net> <20080608221328.U9955@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080608225023.GD54922@ma.sigsys.de>
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On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Raphael Becker wrote:
> find . -type -f -exec grep <grepoptions> <text to search> {} \+
>
> -exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo
> -exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file
Way cool! I hadn't known that about find(1).
Cheers,
-j
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