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Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
- From: km4hr <km4hr at netscape dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
- References: <24359078.post@talk.nabble.com>
Oops, my bad. I forgot about xargs. No wonder I couldn't get it to work.
Glad I asked anyway. I learned a some useful stuff, especially "grep -r".
thanks!
km4hr wrote:
>
> Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way?
>
> Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin?
>
> find .|grep "hello"
>
> I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word "hello" is
> in some files.
>
> What I want this command to do is find all files in all sub-directories
> and pipe the output to grep. Grep then looks in each file for the word
> "hello". The names of files that contain the word "hello" should be
> returned.
>
> thanks.
>
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