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From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Message-ID: <PINARD.90Oct30161354@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:13:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jay@gdx.UUCP's message of 30 Oct 90 04:16:35 GMT

In article <64@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder) writes:

   try:
   find ./ -name "*" -exec grep "xyz" '{}' \;

   the find command will execute any command in this manner.

I do not want to restart an overlong debate about xargs security :-).
If you have many files, use instead:

   find ./ -print | xargs grep xyz

which is slighlty faster.  xargs may quite often be used in
combination with `find -print' in this manner.  The -print is not
required on the newer versions of find.
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