Timeline for A problem with find and grep
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| Mar 30, 2011 at 5:18 | vote | accept | Narek | ||
| Mar 27, 2011 at 19:59 | comment | added | user unknown |
gnu find can handle mutliple filenames at once too: find . -name "$1" -exec grep --color $2 -- {} + if ended with + instead of ";"
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| Mar 26, 2011 at 23:25 | comment | added | glenn jackman | xargs will be more efficient, as it will call grep with several filenames at once, instead of one at a time using -exec | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 12:06 | comment | added | user unknown |
find can call grep without xargs invocation, see -execdir, but in this case, the called program grep can iterate itself.
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| Mar 18, 2011 at 11:55 | history | answered | Narek | CC BY-SA 2.5 |