Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:37:11 -0500 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Tetsuro Teddy FURUYA (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOEVDKxsoQiAbJEJFL086GyhC?=) <ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp> Cc: zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, nectar@nectar.com Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree Message-ID: <19991017163712.3911B1D95@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <19991018003944T.tfuruya@galois.tf.or.jp> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <19991018003944T.tfuruya@galois.tf.or.jp>
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On 18 October 1999 at 0:39, Tetsuro Teddy FURUYA (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOEVDKxsoQiAbJEJFL086GyhC?=) <ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp> wrote:
> It seems queer to me that there has been none who has refered to
> find - exec
> pairs.
>
> You may type into shell like;
> $find . -name "*.c" -print -exec "egrep" "-i" "idt" {} \; | less
> Here , "idt" is a search string.
That's because no one wants a separate invocation of egrep for
every file!
--
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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