[NTLUG:Discuss] grep in subdirs

[Richard Strittmatter]

and *another way*

find . -name \*.xml | xargs grep abc

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Steve Baker wrote:

> David Camm wrote:
> > user rgrep - that's what it was written for. see the man page.
>
> ...and just to prove that there's always *another* way...
>
>     grep abc `find . -name \*.xml -print`
>
> (notice those are backwards quotes).
>
> I prefer it over:
>
>     find . -name \*.xml -exec grep abc
>
> ...because it lists the filenames that match the pattern.
>
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