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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <1087@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 10:49:41 GMT
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Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <15560@duke.cs.duke.edu> bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd) writes:
|The original poster asked for a straightforward construct to let him run
|a "find . -type d ..." invoking "grep {}/*" for each directory found.
|Other worthwhile suggestions have been offered which probably work
|better for what he probably had in mind; however, I am surprised no one
|mentioned the straightforward
|
|	find . -type d -print | while read dir;do
|		grep string $dir/*
|	done
|
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I don't know whether the original poster (who?) posted his question too
to comp.unix.questions, 'cause quoting myself:

|From leo Fri Sep  8 12:56:11 MET DST 1989
|Article 14005 of comp.unix.questions:
|Path: philmds!leo
|>From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
|Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
|Subject: Re: find cannot find all files in a directory
|Keywords: find files directory
|Message-ID: <1082@philmds.UUCP>
|Date: 7 Sep 89 05:53:20 GMT
|References: <874@wubios.wustl.edu>
|Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
|Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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|
|In article <874@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
||I want find to return all the files in each directory to exec.  That is,
||I want to do something like:
||
||     find /path -type d -exec command {}/\* \; -print
||
||so that command will be run on each file, one directory at a time.
|
|If you don't have xargs, how about:
|
|     find /path -type d -print|while read dir; do command $dir/*; done
|
|   Leo.
|

So there _was_ prior art, Bennett, though you'll probably have missed it.

   Leo.