find and searching for specific expression in files

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat May 30 16:44:45 UTC 2009


> the famous back-tics.
>
> 	% grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print`
>
> Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means,
> but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I

unless filelist exceed max lenght of arguments and unfortunately it 
happens often


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