On 10/8/05, Maximillian Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd always include a -type for something like that, otherwise what > happens is that grep tries to run on some pipe in /dev/ and hangs forever. > > find / -name '*' -type f -exec grep -l "welcome here" {} \;
Good point. I usually only run find on fairly restrictive directories, usually looking for something in one of my own files or a command definition in LaTeX. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com