On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:15:32PM -0500, Nick Bender wrote:
>  > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  Displaying the name of the file and the matched line nicely like grep -r
>  > >  does is not elegant with find + grep without using a script or a long
>  > >  and inelegant alias - or if it is, I'd be interested in how it can be
>  > >  done in case I need to work on some ancient unix.
>  >
>  > Never used -r so I'm not sure what the output looks like but how about:
>  >
>  >   find . -type f -exec grep something {} /dev/null \;
>
>  Holy crap people, it was just an example.  Believe it or not, I know
>  alternatives to recursive grep on Solaris.

Don't know why, but through all these posts the last few days, this
one really made me laugh out loud.

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