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I have dafineddefined the following alias in .bashrc~/.bashrc:

 alias fg='find . -name $1 | xargs grep --color $2'

in order to write

fg "*.txt" " my_text "

and find all file that have extension .txt and contain " my_text " but it does not work. Why?

I have dafined the following in .bashrc:

 alias fg='find . -name $1 | xargs grep --color $2'

in order to write

fg "*.txt" " my_text "

and find all file that have extension .txt and contain " my_text " but it does not work. Why?

I have defined the following alias in ~/.bashrc:

 alias fg='find . -name $1 | xargs grep --color $2'

in order to write

fg "*.txt" " my_text "

and find all file that have extension .txt and contain " my_text " but it does not work. Why?

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occurred Mar 18, 2011 at 11:31

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asked Mar 18, 2011 at 9:36

A problem with find and grep

I have dafined the following in .bashrc:

 alias fg='find . -name $1 | xargs grep --color $2'

in order to write

fg "*.txt" " my_text "

and find all file that have extension .txt and contain " my_text " but it does not work. Why?

bash find grep alias

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