Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> wrote:
+---------------
| [Icarus Sparry <i.sparry...@gmail.com>]
| > The 'modern' way to do this is
| > find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever {} +
|
| Actually, I think it should be
| find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever /dev/null {} + \;
| because grep behaves differently when given only one filename as opposed
| to several.
+---------------
Oh, wow! I just learned from this thread about the new (to me)
"{} +" option to "find"! That wasn't in "find" until relatively
recently, it seems. [At least, it wasn't in FreeBSD 4.6, though
it seems to be in FreeBSD 6.x and later...]
Thanks, guys!!
-Rob
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