On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Tom Penney wrote:
> I've always used just grep with the recursive flag like this. I'm
> curious why would others want to complicate things with the find
> command? There must be a reason everyone is suggesting to use find in
> conjunction with grep when grep alone will do. Are they Masochists? For
> style points?

Grep will only read through so many files at once; find+grep doesn't set 
silly limits like that.

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