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]]> By: Bryan http://www.freemacunix.com/need-to-find-a-small-amount-of-text-in-a-big-directory-no-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-17578 Bryan Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:49:14 +0000 http://www.freemacunix.com/need-to-find-a-small-amount-of-text-in-a-big-directory-no-problem/#comment-17578 First let me say this is a handy set of tips on your site. :) There is a quicker way to do this as well just by tweaking your find command a bit. find . -exec grep yahoo {} \; The exec statement works the same as xargs. You can also narrow down the search results from find using type, name and maxdepth options. Cheers First let me say this is a handy set of tips on your site. :)

There is a quicker way to do this as well just by tweaking your find command a bit.

find . -exec grep yahoo {} \;

The exec statement works the same as xargs. You can also narrow down the search results from find using type, name and maxdepth options.

Cheers

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