[Scottish] Best way to find text within files recursively?

[Paul Millar]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Michael Cameron wrote:
> > find . -type f -exec grep 'foo' {} /dev/null \;
> 
> > Also, since grep is only spawned with one filename, it will not
> >(iirc) issue the names of matching files in addition to the matching
> >line itself.  
> 
> /dev/null is the second file

Alternatively, one could use grep's -H option ;^)

Paul.


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