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Subject: RE: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:43 -0500
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From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com>
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km4hr wrote on Monday, July 06, 2009 12:13 PM:
> Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way?
>=20
> Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin?
>=20
> find .|grep "hello"
>=20
> I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word
"hello" is
> in some files.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> thanks.

Your command has grep search the list of files for "hello", not the
contents of those files.

Try this:

find . | xargs grep "hello"

This is not a Cygwin-specific question, BTW.

HTH,
--=20
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com

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