Subj : Re: grep question
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 02:51 pm

staale enlightened us with:
> If you have spaces (or other *nix unfrendly char) in file or folder 
> names you better add -print0 and --null like this:
>
> find / -type f -print0|xargs --null grep "expression"

or:

find / -type f | while read filename; do grep -l "expr" $filename; done

The -l option of grep is useful, otherwise it won't list filenames,
since it is scanning one file at the time. Might be useful to know in
which file the expression is found.

Sybren
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