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Re: How to read log files



On 2.4.2010 1:45, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> etcgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /etc/* ; }
>> sgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /usr/src/linux ; }
>> xgrep () { grep -i "$1" $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ") ; }
>>
> 
> Nice. I'm having a hard time understanding that last one, but I will
> figure it out. Thanks!
> 
> 

It looks like it takes the PATH environment variable and splits it into
multiple tokens (directories), and grep will search in *every* directory
included in PATH.

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