Hi Mike,
>find . -xdev -exec 'grep -l -F "string" {}';
>I'd be grateful if anyone can see what I'm doing wrong,
excerpt from the man page:
-exec command ;
Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following
arguments
to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an
argument con-
sisting of `;' is encountered. The string `{}' is replaced
by the cur-
rent file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the
arguments to
the command, not just in arguments where it is alone, as in
some ver-
sions of find. Both of these constructions might need to
be escaped
(with a `\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the
shell. The
command is executed in the starting directory.
1. There is a space before the semicolon which *is* significant
2. Escape the semicolon
Regards,
Jörg
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