potato info

[Robert Stone]

On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 10:48:05AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Hmm. I never use recursion like that but
> 
> grep xxx `find . -type f` 
> 
> or so. Also allows much better control over the files processed.
> 
	"find . -type f | xargs grep xxx" will do the same, but uses a pipe
for ipc instead of the (finite) command line buffer.  It can also handle files
with spaces in the name (see find's -print0 option).  Sorry, I think I've
spent too much time on comp.unix.shell or something.

						-Robert