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		przemoc on Sept 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day I have a tendency to use xargs too, but often you can go with find's -exec, especially "command {} +" construct used for spitting many files at once to the given command. E.g. `find . -iname '*.pdf' -exec pdfgrep -i keyword {} +`

krzyk on Sept 6, 2012 [–]

Upvoted just for mentioning that there is such thing as pdfgrep, thanks :)

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