>According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/29/2006 5:56 AM:
>>> This also works.
>>>
>>> find . -exec grep -q PATTERN {} \; -exec vi {} \;
>>>
>>
>> No it doesn't because it issues a fresh instance of vi per file.
>
>Then use the POSIX-specified:
>find . -exec grep -q PATTERN {} \; -exec vi {} +
>
>That will execute grep once per file, then aggregate the successful
>matches into a single invocation of vi (assuming you don't exceed ARG_MAX
>limits), properly accounting for spaces in filenames.
>
But, given that find is clever enough to assemble arguments containing
spaces into an arglist and feeding them to vi, why can't bash?
Regards
Bahser
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