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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Fast file scan (long)
Keywords: some examples
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.112445.16500@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Oct 90 11:24:45 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.183310.29684@celebr.uucp> jbm@celebr.uucp (John B. Milton) writes:
>find . -type -f -print | xargs grep SEARCH

I always use

	find ... -print | xargs grep SEARCH /dev/null

in case the last file is all on its own, so that grep doesn't bother to report
the filename.

Rob
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