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From: netawater <netstandin-002@yahoo.com.cn>
Subject: Re: grep a string in subdirectories
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:48:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqn1vucn.fsf@yahoo.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163759162.950544.206560@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

william.a.george@gmail.com writes:

> Hi.
> My problem is When I type this:
> find . | xargs grep test
> Then i get the message:
> xargs cannot fork.
>
> I'm using "UnixUtils" commands on windows XP... Can anybody help me to
> find a solution to my problem.

Please make a script like this:

find ../ -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -H $1 '{}' ';'

it works very well in my Linux machine.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-21 12:48 UTC|newest]

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2006-11-17 10:26 william.a.george
2006-11-21 12:48 ` netawater [this message]

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