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  From: Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:31:35 +1030

Re: Scripts walking the tree

> > Or perhaps you have an example
> > of a shell script that can grep/sort/uniq/iterate over etc., lists of
> > files where some contain newlines.  I have tried to no avail.
> 
> find / -exec grep pattern {} \;

Bzzt.  You just grepped the _contents_ of all files (including those
with newlines in the filename).  "find" is great --- at avoiding the
issue of trying to send lists of filenames across a pipe.  It can do
many of the things that you might need to build a pipeline for, but
the problem arises whenever the list of filenames is sent on for
further processing.

Now sort the output, where some of the filenames contain newlines.


Cheers,


Andrew

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