[ale] find or locate text

[mhirsch at nubridges.com (Michael D. Hirsch)]

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:17 pm, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Coleman <chriscoleman at mail.clayton.edu>
> >>>>> writes:
>
>     Chris> find / -name \* -exec grep string {} \;
>
>
>         That'll start up a grep for each file.  More efficient to use
> xargs instead which will break the arguments up into batches.  That
> find invocation will also look at things such as directories and
> device files as well as plain vanilla files; better to limit with
> `-type f' rather than `-name \*'.
>
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs --null grep fooble

Why not use recusive grep: grep -r fooble *

--Michael

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