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Subject:	Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
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Date:	Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:18:50 +0100
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km4hr writes:

> Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way?
>
> Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin?
>
> find .|grep "hello"
>
> I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word "hello" is
> in some files.

I'm amazed this works on HP -- you want

 >  find .| xargs grep "hello"

Your line looks for hello in the _name_ of each file.

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