Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:09:55 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using the find command Message-ID: <199712231509.PAA10788@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Dec 1997 23:07:51 CST." <199712220507.XAA05231@detlev.UUCP>
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> (Apologies to threaders)
>
> >> Can somebody give me the syntax for using the find command to search
> >> all the files in a tree for a specific string?
> > find . -name "*" -exec grep -l string {} \;
>
> This is less efficient than
> grep string `find . -print`
Hmm, this isn't very good at all if you've got a large number of
files under `.'. The best way(s) to do it is either
find . | xargs grep string
or as someone else pointed out,
grep -R string .
>
> Also note that '-name *' is redundant in find.
>
> Cheers,
> joelh
>
> --
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