Need unix command file HELP!

[Daniel R. Levy]

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In article <2981 at umcp-cs.UUCP>, chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <245 at aero.ARPA> sutton at aero.UUCP (Stew Sutton) writes:
>Also easy: just discard error messages from grep.

Not just that; you ALSO want to discard the crap that grep will spit at the
tty if the string wanted is found in a BINARY FILE!  (Some terminals get
VERY UPSET at random binary sequences.)  Better yet, use the '-l' option:

	$ find / -exec {e,f,""}grep -l "pattern" {} \;

(fgrep is best for FIXED patterns that contain characters which egrep and
grep would treat as wild cards.)

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