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Oops, my bad. I forgot about xargs. No wonder I couldn't get it to work.

Glad I asked anyway. I learned a some useful stuff, especially "grep -r".

thanks!


km4hr wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> What I want this command to do is find all files in all sub-directories
> and pipe the output to grep. Grep then looks in each file for the word
> "hello". The names of files that contain the word "hello" should be
> returned.
> 
> thanks.
> 

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