Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:40:31 -0400 (EDT), Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
>> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
>>> extension of .txt
>>> for the keyword "xorg":
>>> 
>>> grep -r xorg ~/*.txt
>> 
>> That looks like a misunderstanding. That command actually causes grep
>> to search
>> (a) files matching *.txt in the home directory.
>> (b) files of ANY name, contained in subdirectories named *.txt in the
>> home directory.
>> 
>> To search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
>> extension of .txt, you will need to use find .. | xargs or find
>> .. -exec ... {} + as discussed previously,
> 
> I guess you're looking for:
> grep -r --include='*.txt' xorg ~

Clive, you are quite correct.  I didn't think that through carefully
enough.  Thanks for pointing that out.  And thanks to you, Adam, for
the corrected version.

-- 
  .''`.     Stephen Powell    
 : :'  :
 `. `'`
   `-