On 2008-12-23, 12:15 GMT, James Bensley wrote: > find . -exec grep -q "$1" '{}' \; -print >> ./found_files I think you can have only one action (either -exec or -print), but not sure about it. Anyway, my first instinct when things are getting to be more complicated is to use while cycle, like this: find . |while read FILE ; do if grep "$FILE" '{}' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo "$FILE" >> ./found_files fi done Matěj