[ale] Bash question: | in find

[James P. Kinney III]

This is why I use Linux!!!!!

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 00:06, Geoffrey wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what you're trying to do there. I think you're 
> trying to locate the tarball that contains the Xawd library?? Why not 
> let tar do the 'grep' for you:
> 
> for fn in $(find /cdrom/slackware -name '*.tgz' -print); do
> 	echo -n $fn " "
> 	tar tvzf $fn '*libXaw3d*' 2>/dev/null
> done |grep Xaw3d
> 
> 'echo -n' will print the file name without a newline, so the output of 
> tar will be appended to the filename, and the 'grep' on the output of 
> the for loop will print only those lines that contain the Xaw3d, hence 
> all the files that did not contain the file you're looking for will be 
> filtered out.
> 

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