Re: dgrep - Wrapper around gnu find & grep

[jmcnamara]

I usually do something like this:     find . -name \*.pm | xargs grep foo

With egrep or grep -E as necessary. With gnu find the . isn't required. And with gnu grep you can also do the following (crude) recursive grep:     grep -rs foo *

There are probably other ways as well.

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John.

[Aristotle]

Lest filenames with spaces, newlines or other funky bits in them trip you, you might want to get into the habit of coupling find and xargs with their respective nullbyte-termination parameters (see manpages): find . -name \*.pm -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo
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Makeshifts last the longest.

[domm]

Ah, this

find . -name \*.pm | xargs grep foo

is definitly nicer than what I was using.

Thanks.

(But I think I'll still use my wrapper...)

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#!/usr/bin/perl
for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}