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Old 07-14-2008
Search files with specfic extention and later search content
Hi,

I would appriciate if somebody can help me figure out how to search for all the *.xml file under a specific directory and subdirectroies (/home/username) and later search of content "<start>" inside the xml file returned by search.


-Lovin.V
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Old 07-14-2008
Code:
find /home/username -name '*.xml' -exec grep '<start>' {} +

If your find does not support the + syntax, try this:

Code:
find /home/username -name '*.xml'|xargs grep '<start>'

It should be more efficient than:

Code:
find /home/username -name '*.xml' -exec grep  '<start>' {} \; -print

But you should modify it if the filenames contain spaces or other pathological characters.
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Old 07-14-2008
Awesome.. You nailed it.

Thanks,
Lovin.V
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