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Re: [tlug] fgrep: passing results to vi



On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:13, Josh Glover wrote:
> Quoth Jean-Christian Imbeault (Mon 2003-01-20 08:18:50PM +0900):
> >
> > bruno raoult wrote:
> > >
> > >In fact, sort -u is no more necessary with the -l option of grep...
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing that out. Actually I had read up on all the options 
> > but the man page information on the -l option was misleading. I quoteth:
> 
> Don't you mean: "Quoth I (and most verily thus):"?  ;)
> 
> Back on topic, it seems that find could also handle this task...

Yes, find could do the job. But (and this is a major issue), you should
probably need a "-exec grep" somewhere. Meaning a new process for each
file, which is very very bad [tm].

br.

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