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From: evans@decvax.dec.com (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
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Date: 31 Oct 90 12:12:36 GMT
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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.

It would be more efficient to use:

	find . -exec grep "xyz" '{}' \;

or if you have the xargs command:

	find . -print | xargs grep xyz

- Marc
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