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	Benson	2009-07-13 , 20:06
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Originally Posted by qwerty12

Yay, I win!

I forget that cat isn't needed but I've fallen into a bad habit of thinking that grep is most useful when things are piped into it. Like, I do "find | grep whatever" rather than "find -name whatever".

Technically, those are non-equivalent; -name uses a shell pattern, and -regex matches the entire path and name. To exactly substitute, you'd want:

Code:

find -regex '.*whatever.*'

Anyway, imho, pointless cats, greps, etc. are no big deal for interactive shell work; the challenge is to remember to clean things up when you paste it into a file. OTOH, maybe if I were more rigorous about interactive work, my script-tidying would go better...

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