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xargs was my first thought as well. I think I type in this line almost daily (why have i not made an alias already?): find . -type f | xargs grep needle gnu f

by noss 17y ago

xargs was my first thought as well. I think I type in this line almost daily (why have i not made an alias already?): find . -type f | xargs grep needle gnu find and xargs have the -print0 and -0 arguments for piping nul terminated filenames, so special chars in file names wont bite you.

kree10 17y ago
I used to use the find | xargs grep idiom a lot too until I installed ack ( http://betterthangrep.com/ http://betterthangrep.com/ ).
Harkins 17y ago
That example is the equivalent of 'grep -r needle .' if you have GNU grep.