Greg Wooledge wrote: > It kinda reminds me of the Linux newcomers who don't know how to do > gzip -dc foo.tar.gz | tar xvf - (and so on) because they've been trained > to use GNU tar's "z" flag instead, and therefore that piece of their > education hasn't been absorbed yet.
Just like: grep -r PATTERN Has replaced: find . -type f -exec grep PATTERN {} + And therefore they don't know how to write other directory traversal tasks either. find . -type f -exec sed -n '/PATTERN/s/THIS/THAT/gp' {} + Bob