RE: find
Yeah, best not to write e-mails when answering the phone.
-name would be better.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mariusz Kruk [mailto:kruk@rdc.pl]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:55 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: find
Piszcz, Justin napisał(a):
> Sort of.
>
> find . -type '*.c' -exec grep "my_text" {} \;
No! Never use exec this way if the command you use accepts multiple
arguments. Use xargs. (-type '*.c' is a mistake anyway ;->).
You should rather try
find . -type f -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -0 grep "whatever"
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