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Re: Newbie: Searching sub directories for text
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Tue Oct 27 07:15:02 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:13:43 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 06:07 1998-10-27 -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
>Dave, try this:
>
> find . -name "<reg expression for file name>" -exec grep "<reg
expression to find>" {} \;
>
It seems to me that just using rgrep (as mentioned in another post) would
be simpler and faster than running find and executing grep each time a
mathcing file is found.
Tony
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