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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Warner Losh writes:
>: I would like add options for recursive searching 
>: (grep -R foo /usr/include). 
>
>find /usr/local | xargs grep foo

find /usr/local \( -type f -o -type l \) -print | xargs grep foo


>Why do we need another wart on grep?  

Because people are lazy. 'xargs grep foo' call /usr/bin/grep, not my
alias 'grep -i'. grep -R is shorter and for interactive use.

Just my 0.02 Euro
				Wolfram