Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:11:59AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> 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:
> >> 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.
It's not "corrected", as Clive's idea would work just fine. My version is
just simpler and faster, at the cost of using a GNU-specific extension and
thus being less portable.
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