On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:15:32PM -0500, Nick Bender wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Displaying the name of the file and the matched line nicely like grep -r > > does is not elegant with find + grep without using a script or a long > > and inelegant alias - or if it is, I'd be interested in how it can be > > done in case I need to work on some ancient unix. > > Never used -r so I'm not sure what the output looks like but how about: > > find . -type f -exec grep something {} /dev/null \;
Holy crap people, it was just an example. Believe it or not, I know alternatives to recursive grep on Solaris. -J.