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Re: recursive grep
Brendan Simon wrote:
>
> Christopher Jones wrote:
>
> > > The UNIXy way to do this is
> > >
> > > find | xargs grep <pattern>
> > >
This is the proper way
> >
> > or find -exec grep <pattern> \{\} \; -print
> >
> > proving once again there is more than one way to do just about anything.
This one will not list file names when match is found
>
> I use
> grep pattern `find`
> or
> grep pattern `find . -name "*.c"`
>
> This sometimes can fill the command line up though for large file matches.
The xargs above is exactly to avoid line overflow
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I have following aliases in my .tcshrc. Make your own to taste:
alias findc 'find . -type f -name \*.\[cC\]\* -print | xargs grep'
alias findf .....
"findc <pattern>" searches for pattern in all source files in the subtree, skipping
softlinks.
>
> Brendan Simon.
>
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