Steven W. Orr wrote:
On Monday, Jun 26th 2006 at 07:42 -0500, quoth David Gomez:
=>On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:49 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi ALL > >
=>which command is used to display all text files inside a particular
=>directory >
=>
=>That depends on what do you mean by 'text files'
=>
=>I would use something like this.
=>
=>find <start_directory> -type f -exec file {} \| grep
=><some_strings_matching_text_files> \; -print
By my BEARD I wish people would stop using find -exec.
WHY in the Wide Wide World of Sports would anyone start a seperate process
for each file encountered when they could do it all in one process.
PLEASE read the xargs manpage. Learn it. Love it.
WHY do you care how many CPU cycles I use on my own machine?
If you think this fellow might care how long it takes for the command
to execute, why not offer up a little help rather than a RANT?
Mike
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