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Old 05-28-2010
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Originally Posted by royalibrahim
I am wondering why this is throwing error as
grep: ./log1/*: No such file or directory
grep: ./log2/*: No such file or directory

though these 2 directories are available in the current path.
xargs does not expand wildcards, so it's taking the asterisk literally.
# 9  
Old 06-01-2010
I finally found two different ways of making it work. Both are very similar.

Code:
find /data -type d -name log | xargs -I {} find {} -type f | xargs -I [] grep -l "Processing" []

Code:
find /data -type d -name log | xargs -I [] find [] -type f -exec grep -l "Processing" {} \;

Thanks for the tips.

John
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