# Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-found-a-neat-trick-for-doing-recursive-one-liners/51138>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 27, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-found-a-neat-trick-for-doing-recursive-one-liners/51138 "2005-12-27T05:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![SSSiso-8859-1SQSPeS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SSSiso-8859-1SQSPeS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSiso-8859-1SQSPeS)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-found-a-neat-trick-for-doing-recursive-one-liners/51138/1 "2005-12-27T05:19:03Z")

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Gary W. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]

#find -name ‘\*.txt’ -exec ruby -ne ‘print if /Hello/’ ‘{}’ ‘;’

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