on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:36:17PM -0800, Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com) wrote: > or slightly more effective: > > find . -type f |xargs grep char_string /dev/null I prefer: $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs --null zgrep -l pattern ...though as noted, the "grep -r" construct is simpler when pattern matching of filenames isn't required of find. The "-print0" and "--null" switches allow matching of filenames with spaces in them, should any occur, by using an ASCII null as a delimiter rather than whitespace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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