[wplug] need help with command

Jonathan S Billings billings at negate.org
Thu Sep 11 14:05:53 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:53, Bob Schmertz wrote:

> 
> % find . -type f | xargs grep "*stuff*"

This is an OK solution, until you get into situations where you have a
densely populated directory tree, and you exceed the command-line length
for a command (grep, in particular).  I've run into this problem myself.

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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
TSFNKP, President and Chief Lackey




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