On Monday 16 May 2005 23:39, Mosfet wrote: > find . -iname "*cpp" | xargs cat | grep -i KImageEffect | wc --lines find . -iname "*cpp" | xargs grep -i KImageEffect | wc --lines or, since rgrep is now pretty standard : rgrep -r -x cpp -i KImageEffect . | wc --lines (sorry, old reflexes) -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org