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Date:      Sat, 30 May 2009 18:44:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: find and searching for specific expression in files
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905301843550.19030@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20090530183239.a6755d97.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <20090530183239.a6755d97.freebsd@edvax.de>

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> the famous back-tics.
>
> 	% grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print`
>
> Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means,
> but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I

unless filelist exceed max lenght of arguments and unfortunately it 
happens often



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