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Re:Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ... by jimktrains2 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @08:49PM (#15430879)
Because you'll have to pipe into xargs and then you have issues with spaces in file names, sometimes-exec is simpler for a single command.
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Re:Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ... by RHSeeger on Monday October 09, 2017 @02:22AM (#15431893)
You can use -print0 and -0 to handle spaces.

    find . -name \*.java -print0 |xargs -0 grep something
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Re:Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ... by IshKebab on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:40AM (#15432745)
Much more error prone.
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