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Old 01-23-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tiger99 View Post
Hi
I was wondering why command 2 doesn't work like command 1 below.

1.
find . -exec grep "test" '{}' \; -print

2.
ls -R | grep "test"

I am trying to search "test" from all the files in the current and sub directories. What's wrong with my command 2?

Thanks in advance for your help
command 2 searches for filenames that have the string "test" as part of their name while command 1 searches for the string "test" inside each of the files.

Code:
ls -R | xargs grep "test"  #this makes command 2 like command 1