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[Mike McCarty]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 27Nov2006 16:39, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> | On Monday 27 November 2006 15:54, Steve Searle wrote:

[snip]

> | find . -exec -l "My String" \;
> | -- will find all files with the string 'My String' (doesn't match the quotes) 
> | starting at the current dir (.) and below
> | 
> | The -l for grep says only print the filename
> 
> "grep -rl" will do the same thing, and _much_ faster because it does not
> need to fork/exec a new "group" command for every file. The performance
> difference is quite significant.

But also quite a bit less flexible. Using find one can look for "large"
or "small" files, or files modified recently, etc. To get some of the
best of both worlds, use xargs...

$ find . -name <stuff here> <other options> | xargs grep -l "My String"

Mike
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