[CLUE-Tech] xargs

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Sat Jan 4 15:59:02 MST 2003


On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:52:42 +0000
"Jason S. Friedman" <jason at powerpull.net> wrote:

> What's wrong with this:
> 
> $ find . | xargs grep mystring
> xargs: unmatched single quote

I don't have a clue. But, you might try:

  $ rgrep -r mystring *

Or:

  $ find . -exec grep mystring {}\;

but, rgrep is certainly better.

jed
-- 
We're frogs who are getting boiled in a pot full of single-character
morphemes, and we don't notice. - Larry Wall; Perl6, Apocalypse 5



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