On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:08:54AM +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:22:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For instance 'ggrep -r ...' instead of 'grep -r ...' to search recursively > > with gnu grep (a worthless feature imho). > > 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.
$ find DIR -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep PATTERN which, unlike 'find ... -exec' is just as fast as 'grep -r', and unlike 'grep -r', will skip special devices, symlinks, etc.
