Re: grep recursive problem

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Dan Hipschman wrote:
> If your filenames have spaces in them xargs will get confused.  Try
>
>     find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i i80word
>
> This may be your problem, but I can't say for sure.  This is the  
> correct
> way to do what you want and it should work.  Hope that helps :-)

Yes, this is good advice.  I have find aliased to "noglob find" so  
that it doesn't expand wildcards, but regardless the use of -print0  
is admirable if the filename paths contain whitespace...

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-Chuck