[Eug-lug] Strange shell behavior

[Ben Barrett]

Ah, yes, "find" has the "-X" option for xargs compatibility, although that
should not be needed if you're using the "-exec" option as Horst suggests.
That was the tip I thought was buried too deeply in my stack :)

Alternately, try "grep -n MAXLINE code/c/kr/1/*" for instance?

    Ben


On 12/31/06, horst <horsu at freeshell.org> wrote:
>
> Have you considered the use of 'find' , e.g.:
>   find . -type f -name 'your*here' -exec grep 'string options pattern ...'
> /dev/null {} \;
>
>   a) /dev/null is there to make grep list the filename (because your term
> is found in {}, not in /dev/null
>   b) -type f  excluded directories, symlinks, sockets, ...
>      (grep on directories may 'report' binary stuff which can confuse your
> terminal or other 'things' downstream)
>   c) if your serach terms are simple text 'fgrep' may be better, not just
> because it's faster -- it saves you a lot of \escaping.
>   d) find let's you define you much other handy stuff, ctime, atime,
> inode,...
>
> I didn't look too closely at your script, but it seemed like you'r not
> testing file type.
>
> Sorry for the quick&sloppy response.
>
> Happy New Year to all........................Horst
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:33:03 -0800
> > From: Martin Kelly <aomighty at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
> > To: Eugene GNU/Linux Users Group <euglug at euglug.org>
> > Subject: [Eug-lug] Strange shell behavior
> >
> > I have just written a shell script that greps a directory for a certain
> > pattern and reports each file that contains the pattern along with the
> > filename before it (this is why I wrote it... if I just do a "ls | cat |
> grep
> > pattern" or something like that it will report the text that matches but
> not
> > the filename).
> >
> > I am getting strange behavior in that it works, but sometimes it
> randomly
> > reports the contents of my / directory. This does not always happen,
> only
> > sometimes.
> >
> > Here's an example:
> > martin at home:~$ misc/dirgrep code/c/kr/1/ MAXLINE
> >
> > 1-16.c:
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-------
> > #define MAXLINE 1000 /backups /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /initrd
> /initrd.img
>   ...etc...
> >
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