On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 03:44:31PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > find . | grep pattern There are tens of scripts in contrib which do that with du. But the request was for something more like: grep some_pattern */* or grep some_pattern `{find .} or find . | read -m | ifs=' ' while(l=`{sed 10q}) { grep -n some_pattern $l } -- find -- #!/bin/rc du -a | sed 's/[^ ]* //' -- xarg -- #!/bin/rc rfork s n=10 if(~ $1 -l) { n = $2 shift 2 } {read -m; echo -n 'interrupted' >/proc/$pid/notepg} | while() { ifs=' ' { l = `{sed $n^q } } $* $l } -- -- find . | xarg grep -n some_pattern -- Kris Maglione Roses are red violets are blue I am schizophrenic and so am I