grep annoyance!
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plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri Apr 15 11:22:02 2005
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Austin Godber wrote:
> I don't know if there is an option for grep ... it would be nice ... but
> you can use find's -exec feature in conjunction with grep like this:
>
>
> find . -iname "*.c" -exec grep include {} \;
>
> It will search below the current directory for any file ending in .c or
> .C and grep anything it finds for the string "include".
What I dislike about that method is that it doesn't include the filename
of where it found the text. I tend to use:
find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep include
--Ted