Re: How to read log files

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

>>> 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.
>

Without understanding the bash, that is exactly what I had suspected.
The $PATH variable and the : character is what gave it away.

Thanks!


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