Re^4: text search in a file

While we're on shell stuff, I've got to point out that that doesn't work if there's a lot of files below your current working directory. It'll fail with "argument list too long". Much better is:

$ find . -type f -exec grep -qi search_term {} \; -print
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cheers

davis

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Re^5: text search in a file by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 11, 2005 at 09:34 UTC
Even better if you want to optimize the number of sub-processes that get forked: `find . -type f -print \| xargs grep -qi` [download] /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: text search in a file by kwaping (Priest) on Aug 11, 2005 at 15:41 UTC
Thanks! That's a lot nicer to use than what I posted. Just FYI, Solaris' built-in grep doesn't like the q flag. This seems to work well: `find search_path -type f -exec grep -li search_term {} \;` [download] Also, at least on Solaris, that -print causes double output.	[reply] [d/l]