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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> 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'

I'm not particularly fond of xargs, I guess.  

When I get to a point where other people might use it I tend to whip
up something in Perl instead.

But yes, that's an excellent answer and probably close to what I was
looking for, despite not being my favored tool.

jason
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