[H-GEN] Mega documentation and distro server. Was: Idea for journalling filesystems

[Anthony Towns]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:17:52AM -0400, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> Hmm.  Right now grep -ri does a credible job.  Actually that raises an
> interesting question for Greg Black---Greg, how do you go about doing
> recursive greps?  If I remember correctly you eschew nonstandard
> options such as (I assume) -r.  I've never found a particularly
> compelling find+grep combination.

What's uncompelling about:

    find -type f | xargs grep 'blah'

? Or:

    find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'blah'

if you're scripting and worried about insane people using it...

Cheers,
aj

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