Ah, yes, "find" has the "-X" option for xargs compatibility, although that
should not be needed if you're using the "-exec" option as Horst suggests.
That was the tip I thought was buried too deeply in my stack :)
Alternately, try "grep -n MAXLINE code/c/kr/1/*" for instance?
Ben
On 12/31/06, horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you considered the use of 'find' , e.g.:
find . -type f -name 'your*here' -exec grep 'string options pattern ...'
/dev/null {} \;
a) /dev/null is there to make grep list the filename (because your term
is found in {}, not in /dev/null
b) -type f excluded directories, symlinks, sockets, ...
(grep on directories may 'report' binary stuff which can confuse your
terminal or other 'things' downstream)
c) if your serach terms are simple text 'fgrep' may be better, not just
because it's faster -- it saves you a lot of \escaping.
d) find let's you define you much other handy stuff, ctime, atime,
inode,...
I didn't look too closely at your script, but it seemed like you'r not
testing file type.
Sorry for the quick&sloppy response.
Happy New Year to all........................Horst
> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:33:03 -0800
> From: Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]>
> To: Eugene GNU/Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Eug-lug] Strange shell behavior
>
> I have just written a shell script that greps a directory for a certain
> pattern and reports each file that contains the pattern along with the
> filename before it (this is why I wrote it... if I just do a "ls | cat |
grep
> pattern" or something like that it will report the text that matches but
not
> the filename).
>
> I am getting strange behavior in that it works, but sometimes it
randomly
> reports the contents of my / directory. This does not always happen,
only
> sometimes.
>
> Here's an example:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ misc/dirgrep code/c/kr/1/ MAXLINE
>
> 1-16.c:
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #define MAXLINE 1000 /backups /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /initrd
/initrd.img
...etc...
>
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