csh args
Jim Burns
gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU
Sat Oct 20 23:15:15 AEST 1990
in article <4864 at crystal1.UUCP>, mostek at motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek) says:
> Other things I would like to do would be to only "print" the files that grep
> finds a pattern in, and pipe the grep into more.
> The following alias does not work:
> alias sea 'find \!:1 -name "\!:2" -print -exec grep \!:3 {} | more \;'
Move the '\;' to the other side of the '|':
alias sea 'find \!:1 -name "\!:2" -print -exec grep \!:3 {} \; | more '
This, however, only works for explicit filenames. To use (quoted)
wildcard characters, add an 'eval' and some extra '\'s:
alias sea 'eval find \!:1 -name \"\!:2\" -print -exec grep \!:3 {} \\\; | more'
Then 'sea subdir \* pat' will work. The '-print' causes *every* filename
to be printed out. Without it, you can only get the filenames for matching
files printed out with 'xargs' or a for loop, ala P.J.Falstad's suggestions.
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