a question about GREP

[Ben Scott]

On 23 Mar 2007 17:01:40 -0400, Kevin D. Clark <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> Here is how I would do this:
>
> find your-dirname1 your-dirname2 -name \*out\* \
>    -exec perl -e 'undef $/;
>                   $filename=$ARGV[0];
>                   $_=<>;
>                   exit(!(-T $filename && /\bzip\b/))' \{\} \; -print \
>      >zip.txt

  Holy crap!  Where's Perl's oft-decried extreme conciseness?  ;-)

  I much prefer the all-in-one approach:

grep -lwir --include=\*out\* . > zip.txt

  Yah, the find command is very useful, since it's generic, and thus
works in very complicated situations, when nothing else will.  But for
more common cases, the convenience features of modern *nix tools
really do save a lot of work.  :-)

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