From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <6a3ae47e1001220944v34a952ebv23388e2aaab247a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:13:21 -0600 Message-ID: From: Jason Catena To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] find command reloaded Topicbox-Message-UUID: c327acbc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 If looking through code: du -a . | xargs g pattern >[2]/dev/null If looking through all files: du -a . | xargs grep -n foo >[2]/dev/null The -n is to be friendly with acme. This presumes you have (at least a cheap knockoff of) xargs.