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RE: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:43 -0500
- Subject: RE: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
- References: <24359078.post@talk.nabble.com>
km4hr wrote on Monday, July 06, 2009 12:13 PM:
> Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way?
>
> Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin?
>
> find .|grep "hello"
>
> I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word
"hello" is
> in some files.
>
> What I want this command to do is find all files in all
sub-directories and
> pipe the output to grep. Grep then looks in each file for the word
"hello".
> The names of files that contain the word "hello" should be returned.
>
> thanks.
Your command has grep search the list of files for "hello", not the
contents of those files.
Try this:
find . | xargs grep "hello"
This is not a Cygwin-specific question, BTW.
HTH,
--
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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