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Re: Recursive patter search in UNIX

Lars Kellogg-Stedman

2005-11-18, 5:54 pm

>> I tend to prefer:
>
> Why not:
>
> grep -l -r ABC .

Even with GNU grep available, the "find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ..."
formulation is tremendously useful to know, especially if you interact
with Mac or Windows filesystems.

-- Lars

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