Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:25, John Meinel wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >>Actually, I really wish grep had the workaround, because otherwise I 
> >>have to do this little hack:
> >>
> >>grep -rn "what I want" * | grep -v "{arch}/"
> >>
> >>which means it still has to grep all of those files, it just doesn't 
> >>tell me about it.
> > 
> > 
> > So reverse your greps.
> > 
> 
> That doesn't actually work. Because the final grep is actually greping 
> out the filename given by the first grep, not the text in the file. 
> Something that might work is:
> 
> $ find . ! -path "*arch*" -print0 | xargs -0 -n50 grep -rn "what I want"

find . | grep -v *arch* | xargs grep -n "blah"

?doesn't that do basically what you want?

(don't know how the -print0 fits into that one though)

cheers
zen