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From: ams@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.m.shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <1590@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 89 17:22:34 GMT
References: <13710@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: ams@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.m.shaw,580,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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>>Here is a short quicky (I hope).  I am trying to do the following:
>>
>>find . -type d -exec grep string {}/* \;

>...why not do this:
>
>	find . -type f -exec grep string {} \;
>

No, find does not expand {} unless isolated.  Why not use the the much
ignored xargs and save yourself n execs of grep?  Thus:

	find . -type f -print | xargs grep string