 | | | About grep | About grep 2004-01-13 - By Rus Foster
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> My personal favorite is still:
>
> find . -type f -exec grep 'abc ' {} /dev/null \;
>
> Note the use of /dev/null as a second file name arg to grep:
> this forces grep to emit the name of the file the search string was
> found in, if any...without it you get a list of the matched lines, but
> no file name where found...useless.
A handy varient to find the file in which the pattern was found is
find . -type f -exec grep -l 'abc ' {} \;
Rgds
rus
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