Revisions to How to find contents of a file?

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edited Jan 26, 2018 at 12:38

This should work:

find . -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} +\;

This should work:

find . -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} +

This should work:

find . -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} \;

cat can take more than one file argument. The . is required by POSIX and some find implementations

edited Jan 26, 2018 at 9:44

This should work:

find . -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} \;+

This should work:

find -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} \;

This should work:

find . -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} +

answered Jan 25, 2018 at 20:11

This should work:

find -type f -name '*a*' -exec cat {} \;

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