On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:15:32PM -0500, Nick Bender wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Displaying the name of the file and the matched line nicely like grep -r
> > > does is not elegant with find + grep without using a script or a long
> > > and inelegant alias - or if it is, I'd be interested in how it can be
> > > done in case I need to work on some ancient unix.
> >
> > Never used -r so I'm not sure what the output looks like but how about:
> >
> > find . -type f -exec grep something {} /dev/null \;
>
> Holy crap people, it was just an example. Believe it or not, I know
> alternatives to recursive grep on Solaris.
Don't know why, but through all these posts the last few days, this
one really made me laugh out loud.