如何在没有前导目录名称的情况下为exec查找传递文件名？

Question

Someone created directories with names like source.c . I am doing a find over all the directories in a tree. I do want find to search in the source.c directory, but I do not want source.c to be passed to the grep I am doing on what is found.

How can I make find not pass directory names to grep ? Here is what my command line looks like:

find sources* \( -name "*.h" -o -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.c" \) -exec grep -Hi -e "ThingToFind" {} \;

Answer 1

Add -a -type f to your find command. This will force find to only output files, not directories. (It will still search directories):

find sources* \( -name "*.h" -o -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.c" \) -a -type f -exec grep -Hi -e "ThingToFind" {} \;