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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