[NBLUG/talk] Searching for an expression within all files

[Todd Cary]

Ross -

I came across this command and I am not sure of the diferences:

# grep -r interbase.so /etc/*

Todd

Ross Thomas wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:42:19 -0800, "Todd Cary"
><todd at aristesoftware.com> said:
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>>I want to seach for the expression within all files contained within
>>/etc.
>>
>>find /etc -type -f
>>
>>That will give me all files.
>>
>>fgrep "interbase.so" [files]
>>
>>Will search within files, but I do not know how to feed the output of 
>>"find" into "fgrep".
>>    
>>
>
>xargs is your friend, thusly:
>    find /etc/ -type f | xargs grep "interbase.so"
>
>Also, if you are on Linux or using the gnu versions of find & xargs,
>use the '0' options (that's a zero) so that files with strange chars
>in their names work.  Like this:
>   find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep "interbase.so"
>
>HTH.
>
>Ross.
>
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