Grep Guru

[Raphael Becker]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep <grepoptions> <text to search>

There's no more need for find | xargs

Try: 

find . -type -f -exec grep <grepoptions> <text to search> {} \+

-exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo  
-exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file

Regards
Raphael

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