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Old 02-13-2008
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Code:
grep $pattern *.log

But if you have thousands of files, it may break. In that case, you can use


Code:
find $dir -type f -name '*.log' -exec grep -o $pattern {} \;

OR


Code:
find $dir -type f -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -o $pattern