在linux中的自定义别名中没有得到find命令的结果

Question

I have this command in my .bashrc

 mygrep() {
         find /var/www/site1 -exec grep -Hn "$1" {} \;
     }

But sometimes its not returing results

But this command return full results

grep -r "serch term" /var/www/site1

whats wrong with above function

Answer 1

Nothing is wrong with your function when run on my Linux box. To make results look absolutely the same, add the -n option to both grep calls: grep -rn "serch term" /var/www/site1 .

This is what I did to compare the output of both commands on the fly (in bash):

diff <(grep -rn ast /var/www/site1) <(mygrep ast)