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Re: grep -r problem
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Karl Berry |
Subject: |
Re: grep -r problem |
Date: |
Sat, 10 May 2003 14:28:24 -0400 |
> find -name *.c | xargs grep void
Let me take exception to not quoting the *.c in the above. If there
True enough, I meant to say `find *.c | xargs grep void' :).
"Back in the day" you could rely upon the fact that people never put
funny characters in file names.
True enough, I was/am relying on that fact. Heck, the Unixy
distributions I tend to grep don't put spaces in their filenames ...
my best to retrain myself to think of every filename as being
potentially hostile toward me.
I understand, but how sad. I like to think of filenames as my friends,
there is too much hostility in the world already :).
karl (just another swimming submarine)