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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <677@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 14:26:40 GMT
References: <7774@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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ams@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.m.shaw,580,) sez:
> 
>  In article <666@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
>  >steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) sez:
>  >> williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow) writes:
>  >
>  >	find . -type d -print | awk '{ print "grep string " $0 "/*" }' | sh
>  >
>  >But then I use awk for most everything, no matter how ugly :-)
> 
> Since my previous posting may have gotten lost, I resend that I recommend
> the following:
> 
> 	find . -type f -print | xargs fgrep string
> 
> Neat and clean.

Script started on Thu Aug 31 10:22:20 1989
lakart!dg(~)[61]-> find xargs
lakart!dg(~)[62]-> ^D
script done on Thu Aug 31 10:22:34 1989

Great. Now what do all us Berkeley folks do when we don't have xargs.
How's about we pirate a copy from a local SysV site that happens to
have a source licence. Naahhhh - that might get us in trouble. :-)
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