Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:40:31 -0400 (EDT), Adam Borowski wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt
for the keyword xorg:
grep -r xorg ~/*.txt
That looks like a misunderstanding. That command actually causes grep
to search
(a) files matching *.txt in the home directory.
(b) files of ANY name, contained in subdirectories named *.txt in the
home directory.
To search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt, you will need to use find .. | xargs or find
.. -exec ... {} + as discussed previously,
I guess you're looking for:
grep -r --include='*.txt' xorg ~
Clive, you are quite correct. I didn't think that through carefully
enough. Thanks for pointing that out. And thanks to you, Adam, for
the corrected version.
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Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:11:59AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:40:31 -0400 (EDT), Adam Borowski wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
To search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt, you will need to use find .. | xargs or find
.. -exec ... {} + as discussed previously,
I guess you're looking for:
grep -r --include='*.txt' xorg ~
Clive, you are quite correct. I didn't think that through carefully
enough. Thanks for pointing that out. And thanks to you, Adam, for
the corrected version.
It's not corrected, as Clive's idea would work just fine. My version is
just simpler and faster, at the cost of using a GNU-specific extension and
thus being less portable.
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Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...
Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt
for the keyword xorg:
grep -r xorg ~/*.txt
That looks like a misunderstanding. That command actually causes grep
to search
(a) files matching *.txt in the home directory.
(b) files of ANY name, contained in subdirectories named *.txt in the
home directory.
To search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt, you will need to use find .. | xargs or find
.. -exec ... {} + as discussed previously,
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Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt
for the keyword xorg:
grep -r xorg ~/*.txt
That looks like a misunderstanding. That command actually causes grep
to search
(a) files matching *.txt in the home directory.
(b) files of ANY name, contained in subdirectories named *.txt in the
home directory.
To search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an
extension of .txt, you will need to use find .. | xargs or find
.. -exec ... {} + as discussed previously,
I guess you're looking for:
grep -r --include='*.txt' xorg ~
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// adequately explained by malice.
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