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Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
- From: ht at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:18:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't "find .|grep aword" work?
- References: <24359078.post@talk.nabble.com>
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km4hr writes:
> Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way?
>
> Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin?
>
> find .|grep "hello"
>
> I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word "hello" is
> in some files.
I'm amazed this works on HP -- you want
> find .| xargs grep "hello"
Your line looks for hello in the _name_ of each file.
ht
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