* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 16:13]: > When searching only a single directory, without its subdirectories, you > probably don't really need find; it would do as well in most cases just > to redirect grep's stderr to /dev/null, like this: > > grep "pattern to seach for" files 2>/dev/null > > (assuming you are using a reasonable shell, i.e. not csh, which as I > recall cannot redirect stderr). This gets rid of grep's silly complaints > about "x is a directory" for every subdirectory. > this works, too, to skip the garbage printed by trying to read directories:
grep -d skip "pattern" files the -d skip (or -dskip) tells grep to skip over the directories instead of trying to read them. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/
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