From: "W.B.Hill" <mail@...>
Date: 2005-12-27T23:46:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Pat Maddox wrote:

> Or you can use the tools designed for finding stuff :)
>
> find . -name "*.txt" | xargs grep Hello
>
> That version will work for all files.  You can play with find to match
> any file you want.

find . -regex '.*\.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1000 grep Hello

-print0 and -0 to avoid trouble with spaces and other metagubbins.
-n1000 for a bit of a speedup
-regex to show you can ;-)