Re: about find

[Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>]

On 10/8/05, Maximillian Murphy <m@de-minimis.co.uk> wrote:
> I'd always include a -type for something like that, otherwise what
> happens is that grep tries to run on some pipe in /dev/ and hangs forever.
>
> find / -name '*' -type f -exec grep -l "welcome here" {} \;

Good point.  I usually only run find on fairly restrictive
directories, usually looking for something in one of my own files or a
command definition in LaTeX.

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