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Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:51:20 +1000
From:	Brendan Simon <bsimon AT ctam DOT com DOT au>
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To:	CygWin32 <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: recursive grep
References:	<006701befee8$71f51ef0$effcf584 AT rtp-cbjones DOT corpeast DOT baynetworks DOT com>

Christopher Jones wrote:

> > The UNIXy way to do this is
> >
> > find | xargs grep <pattern>
> >
>
> or find -exec grep <pattern> \{\} \; -print
>
> proving once again there is more than one way to do just about anything.

I use
grep pattern `find`
or
grep pattern `find . -name "*.c"`

This sometimes can fill the command line up though for large file matches.

Brendan Simon.


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