From: Reinder Verlinde <reinder@...>
Date: 2005-12-27T19:57:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

In article 
<810a540e0512262005s3e4c971bl2f2915954c34965f@mail.gmail.com>,
 Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Or you can use the tools designed for finding stuff :)
> 
> find . -name "*.txt" | xargs grep Hello
> 
> That version will work for all files.

<educational type="but not ruby related">
Not quite. For better (maximum?) robustness, pass '-print0' to find and 
'-0' to xargs. That will handle filenames with spaces and/or quotes 
correctly. (If your filenames have bytes with binary value zero in them, 
you still will be out of luck)
</educational>

Reinder