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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 19:59:00 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Easy, quick, BASH question
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Stephen,

By using the "$PWD" argument, your suggestion will result in absolute 
path-names being generated and passed to grep. It's not a wrong or right 
issue, of course--in some circumstances that might be desirable, in others not.

Also, by forking a separate process for each file, this approach generates 
pretty high overhead by comparison with the other suggestions that have 
been proffered.

And again, the "$*" will not work correctly if more than one argument is 
given to this definition of "hcgrep." "$@" is the proper way to pass 
multiple, individually quoted options to the invocation(s) of grep.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:11 2002-08-02, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
>$ function hcgrep()(find "$PWD" -name "*.[ch]" -type f -exec grep -n -H 
>"$*" {} \;)
>
>$ hcgrep include
>
>... works.
>
>According to the "man" page for bash, alias does not take arguments.


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