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.