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by frenchie14 3379 days ago
> No more 'find . -name * .java -exec grep -Hni System.out {} \;'

While ack is great, I just want to point at you could easily do 'grep -rHni System.out --include \*.java'. Granted it's still more words, but the '--include' directive (which you can specify multiple of) is really great for quickly modifying a grep search to restrict to certain filetypes. No need for find/exec :)