in reply to Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix)

Use grep:
grep -rE "\.{5}" `ls /my_folders`
--------> SV* sv_bless(SV* sv, HV* stash);

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Re^2: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix)
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Mar 30, 2003 at 20:22 UTC
    That does the same as grep -rE "\.{5}" /my_folders/* so it's useless use of ls.

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