How to have Tcl run a find + grep

[Fermulator]

Hi there!

I'm trying to get Tcl to run a 'find this string in all of these files' type of command.

From a shell (not Tcl), the following command works:

find . -type f -exec grep -ni my_search_text /dev/null {} \;

However, from Tcl, if we try to run:

exec find . -type f -exec grep -ni $tag /dev/null {} \;

we receive a bunch of errors from grep:

grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open
grep: can't open

Clicking on the Tcl error just yields the same text, no additional information.

Any thoughts?

 

[Bong]

could it possibly be permissions?

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Bob Rashkin