Re: encapulating a find function in a script

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:34:01PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Try putting double-quotes around the parameters, like:
> 
> 	 find $1 -name "$2" -exec grep -H "$3" '{}' ';'
> 
> This works for me in a similar script, at least in the csh shell.

You may also find that using xargs instead of -exec is much faster (fewer
fork/execs).

Something like:

find "$1" -name "$2" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H "$3"

mrc
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