Re: find in conjuction with grep

[Lew Bloch <conrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:43:10 +0200
> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I've been using
> > > find . -exec grep "phrase I want" {} \;
>
> Not the best way. Using -exec is problematic.

How exactly is the -exec directive problematic?

I use "find ... -exec grep ..." a lot.  I also use the "find ... | xargs 
grep ..." a lot.