find / grep to list files with php's short_open_tag

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 19:41 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> am i stupid or grep? :-)

Well I know you aren't grep ...

> find /data/www/ -type f -name \*.php -exec grep -l -i -n -F "<?" '{}' \;
> lists any file which contains  "<?" under the path /data/www/
> 
> find /data/www/ -type f -name \*.php -exec grep -l -i -n -F "<?\n" '{}' \;
> is expected to find any file with "<?" followed directly by a linebreak
> but that does not work and if someone finds google empty it was me :-(

Not sure if "\n" is allowed, but why not use $ for end of line as in
most regular expressions?

poc