Re: [bug-grep] Re: grep should have option to skip FIFOs

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:33:52AM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> As "-r" is GNU/BSD xargs specific, you might as well use -0:

thank you very much for telling me.

So I'll change my habit and will suggest

        find . \! -type d | xargs grep -H pattern

for command line and

        find . ! -type d -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -H pattern

as a more robust variant for scripts.

Yours,
        Stepan Kasal