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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:13:57 -0500
From: Tadeusz Liszka <tad AT comco DOT com>
Organization: Computational Mechanics, Inc.
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Subject: Re: recursive grep
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Brendan Simon wrote:
> 
> Christopher Jones wrote:
> 
> > > The UNIXy way to do this is
> > >
> > > find | xargs grep <pattern>
> > >

This is the proper way 

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

This one will not list file names when match is found

> 
> I use
> grep pattern `find`
> or
> grep pattern `find . -name "*.c"`
> 
> This sometimes can fill the command line up though for large file matches.

The xargs above is exactly to avoid line overflow

================

I have following aliases in my .tcshrc. Make your own to taste:

alias findc 'find . -type f -name \*.\[cC\]\* -print | xargs grep'
alias findf .....


"findc <pattern>" searches for pattern in all source files in the subtree, skipping
softlinks.

> 
> Brendan Simon.
> 
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