Re: dgrep - Wrapper around gnu find & grep

I usually do something like this: find . -name \*.pm | xargs grep foo

With egrep or grep -E as necessary. With gnu find the . isn't required. And with gnu grep you can also do the following (crude) recursive grep: grep -rs foo *

There are probably other ways as well.

--
John.

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Re^2: dgrep - Wrapper around gnu find & grep by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 22, 2002 at 22:17 UTC
Lest filenames with spaces, newlines or other funky bits in them trip you, you might want to get into the habit of coupling `find` and `xargs` with their respective nullbyte-termination parameters (see manpages): `find . -name \.pm -print0 \| xargs -0 grep foo` `____________` Makeshifts last the longest.*	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: dgrep - Wrapper around gnu find & grep by domm (Chaplain) on Jul 22, 2002 at 21:51 UTC
Ah, this `find . -name \*.pm \| xargs grep foo` is definitly nicer than what I was using. Thanks. (But I think I'll still use my wrapper...) `-- #!/usr/bin/perl for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]