>>Here is a short quicky (I hope). I am trying to do the following:
>>
>>find . -type d -exec grep string {}/* \;
>...why not do this:
>
> find . -type f -exec grep string {} \;
>
No, find does not expand {} unless isolated. Why not use the the much
ignored xargs and save yourself n execs of grep? Thus:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep string