Re: grep question

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004, at 20:49 US/Central, Charlie Brune wrote:
> How about:
>
>      find -type f -exec grep -H "this_string" \;
>
> The "-H" grep option will show the name of the file.

Just being picky: you need to specify a directory and the argument to 
grep:

  $ find . -type f -exec grep -H "this_string" {} \;

Also, if I did use 'find', I would use xargs instead of the -exec:

  $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H "this_string"

but that's just my preference.

Regards,
- Robert
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