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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: csh args
Message-ID: <15547@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 90 13:15:15 GMT
References: <4864@crystal1.UUCP>
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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in article <4864@crystal1.UUCP>, mostek@motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek) says:

> Other things I would like to do would be to only "print" the files that grep
> finds a pattern in, and pipe the grep into more.

> The following alias does not work:

> alias	sea	'find \!:1 -name "\!:2" -print -exec grep \!:3 {} | more \;'

Move the '\;' to the other side of the '|':

alias sea     'find \!:1 -name "\!:2" -print -exec grep \!:3 {} \; | more '

This, however, only works for explicit filenames. To use (quoted)
wildcard characters, add an 'eval' and some extra '\'s:

alias sea 'eval find \!:1 -name \"\!:2\" -print -exec grep \!:3 {} \\\; | more'

Then 'sea subdir \* pat' will work. The '-print' causes *every* filename
to be printed out. Without it, you can only get the filenames for matching
files printed out with 'xargs' or a for loop, ala P.J.Falstad's suggestions.
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