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Old 03-18-2009
Mumford Mumford is offline
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You're seeing this because the find command passes the filenames it finds as a list of words separated by spaces. The problem is some of the files have spaces in the names. If you're on Linux or otherwise using GNU find & GNU xargs, you can use:


Code:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'test result - pass' | wc -l

'print0' tells find to use \0 as the separator instead of space, and the -0 option to xargs tells it to accept \0 as the separator.
Last edited by Mumford; 03-18-2009 at 04:19 PM..