Thank you (for making the ports less boring).

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 09/13/2011 09:11 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>   >  particularly nasty thing to do.  I get the impression that each
>   >  committer has his own special way of doing this.  For example, I have
>   >  personally found that a simple grep won't work, because "grep xxx
>   >  /usr/ports/*/Makefile*" just creates a line too long for the shell to
>   >  handle.  I use a shell construction involving "find" but I wonder how
>   >  others do the same thing.
>
> cd /usr/ports
> echo */*/Makefile* | xargs grep xxx

That's amazing.

It would never have occurred to me that "echo */*/Makefile*" works when 
"grep xxx */*/Makefile*".  Is that because "echo" is a builtin command 
in csh (which is what I use)?  I notice "/bin/echo */*/Makefile*" 
doesn't work.

Is this documented somewhere?