On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote: > 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 > I don't think the '{}' construct for 'find' will work on the other side of a pipe.... mhr