grep'ing tips (was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] tap[0-9]* modules? )

[Rick Cook]

>> As is so common with Unixes (or Uni?) there is yet another way to handle
>> this situation.  Try out the following (which doesn't include backticks):
>> 
>> 	find . -type f -print | xargs egrep tap0

or, alternatively:

	find . -type f -exec egrep tap0 {} \;

This way, egrep gets one filename at a time...

BTW, the \ is to make the semi-colon "terminate" the -exec list rather
than being used as a command delimiter.


Rick