grep

[Francois Pinard]

In article <64 at gdx.UUCP> jay at gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder) writes:

   try:
   find ./ -name "*" -exec grep "xyz" '{}' \;

   the find command will execute any command in this manner.

I do not want to restart an overlong debate about xargs security :-).
If you have many files, use instead:

   find ./ -print | xargs grep xyz

which is slighlty faster.  xargs may quite often be used in
combination with `find -print' in this manner.  The -print is not
required on the newer versions of find.
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