can grep use filenames from stdin?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Rogelio Serrano wrote:

> can we make grep get filenames from stdin like:
>
> find . -name \*.c | grep -l -e somepattern

"xargs":

  $ find ... | xargs grep ...

rday
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