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.

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