On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:45 -0700, Kevin Wang wrote: > to be a little more explicit and to throw an extra trick in your bag, > I usually write tihs up (in scripts, not typically on the command > line) as: > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 egrep 'want | phrase' /dev/null > > why the /dev/null? grep will only prepend the filename in the output > if there's more than 1 file. This guarantees that you'll always have > at least 2 files. Or, you could use egrep -H :)
