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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <9135@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 21:22:25 GMT
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> . . .I recommend the following:
> 	find . -type f -print | xargs fgrep string

Using
	find . -type f -print | xargs fgrep string /dev/null
will help ensure that all files are treated consistently.  If xargs bunched
all but one of your files into its first exec of fgrep, then passed the last
file to fgrep, you'd get output such as
	firstfile: This is a string.
	secondfile: This is also a string.
	This is the last string.
with the first command above; you'd get output such as
	firstfile: This is a string.
	secondfile: This is also a string.
	thelastfile: This is the last string.
with the second command above.
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