using find and grep with pipe

[shishir]

Hi,

I would like to search for a text in a file using find and grep command. For that I used following command

find ./ -name *.C -exec grep "using namespace cem" {} \; -print

and it worked correctly.

Just wondering why following command fails to do the same any pointers would be appreciated..

find ./ -name *.C | gerp "using namespace cem"

shishir

[kyku]

Look at my answer at: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-29670.html

[Shabakthanai]

Could it be gerp instead of grep?

[vsemaska]

Assuming the 'gerp' was just a typo in your post the problem is you're searching the filenames and not the text within the files. Try this:

find ./ -name *.C | xargs grep "using namespace cem"