grep

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <8304 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> subbarao at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>grep pattern */*  (i.e matches all files of all subdirectories)

Often this method will exceed the number of characters allowed for arguments.

>find . -exec grep pattern "{}" \;
>find . -print | xargs grep pattern.

These will fail to print the file name (in the xargs case, it fails
only occasionally).  Basically the problem is nonuniform design of
grep's semantics.  To get reasonable behavior, try
	find . -print | xargs grep pattern /dev/null