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That's similar in utility to something I spoke about in the CB awhile back, bart said he'd like it and I started but haven't finished... It was aplopos, an apropos for your installed module base.

I have this, quotemeta for pipes e.g; find -name *.pl | quotemeta | xargs grep foo 

#perl -p
s/([ '"$*?()\[\]])/\\$1/g;

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And this icky URIgrep: 
#perl -l -O777
$_=<>;while(m/(\w+:\/\/[-a-zA-Z0-9\$_.+!*'(),?\/\%\&=~:]+)/g){print$1;
+}

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Re^2: Private Utilities
by Eimi Metamorphoumai (Deacon) on Dec 01, 2005 at 00:59 UTC
    I can see some uses for your quotemeta for pipes, but the use you mentioned is more easily written as 
    find -name \*.pl -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo

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    which has the advantage of quoting all nasty filename characters (for instance, new lines, tabs, etc).
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      Except that not all finds and xargss have this feature. The ones included with Solaris, for example.

      thor

      The only easy day was yesterday

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      If you have newlines in your filenames you've issues IMHO. As for "more easily" well, I don't find your idiom particularly intuitive (it relies upon two arcane swtiches and you're sort of repeating yourself). Besides, I don't use the tool as much as I could because it always slips my mind, the more I use it the more I'll use it :-P

      It's interesting to know there's an option, maybe I'll include some variant as the default when I get around to writing the trivial wrapper that accepts arguments in the right order. POSIX be damned, find is grep-ing the filesystem and it ought to be find EXPR PATH

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