Re: |& in bash?

[Bob Proulx]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> It kinda reminds me of the Linux newcomers who don't know how to do
> gzip -dc foo.tar.gz | tar xvf - (and so on) because they've been trained
> to use GNU tar's "z" flag instead, and therefore that piece of their
> education hasn't been absorbed yet.

Just like:

  grep -r PATTERN

Has replaced:

  find . -type f -exec grep PATTERN {} +

And therefore they don't know how to write other directory traversal
tasks either.

  find . -type f -exec sed -n '/PATTERN/s/THIS/THAT/gp' {} +

Bob