Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <3478@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 03:50:45 GMT
References: <666@lakart.UUCP> <1641@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <7774@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
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In article <7774@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:

>Iff your system happens to have xargs - many Berkeley derived systems don't,
>in which case the "find | filter | sh" can stil handle the problem.

Well, everyone has a zippy solution, but it seems, backquotes are either
out of fashion, too simple, or because of broken shells, ("Arguments too
long" ?? Nooo... really ??) nobody suggested something like

	egrep ptui `find whatever -print`

Hmm. I thought I had it all this time. :-)

oz
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