Search String: Find and Grep

Question

There must be a better / shorter way to do this:

# Find files that contain  in current directory
#   (including sub directories) 
$ find .          


        

Answer 1

Not sure what do you mean by better, my first thought was something like this:

grep  $(find -regex .*\.html)

But that's worse because result of the find would be accumulated somewhere in shells memory and then sent as a huge chunk of input arguments

The only imporvement I see too your suggestion is

find -regex .*\.html | xargs grep 

That way find performs all the filtering and you still retain piped processing