I apologize for using a brain dead example.  I was more excited about the
prospect of hitting all files under the current directory recursively, not
the actual processing I used in my examples.  Thanks for the pointer to
xargs.  I didn't know about that one, I'll have to take a closer look at
it's man page.

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:05:32 +0900, Pat Maddox wrote:

> Or you can use the tools designed for finding stuff :)
> 
> find . -name "*.txt" | xargs grep Hello
> 
> That version will work for all files.  You can play with find to match
> any file you want.
> 
> Pat