problem with: find command executing a grep

From: j kopek (remove_leading_jgb_jgbjprok_at_optonline.net)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:26:55 GMT

In another post I stated I am having problems having grep recurse
directories. So I tried a different approach, using the find commmand
with an -exec.

problem:

when I run

find /usr/include -type d -exec grep sometext {}/*.h \;

I am getting:

grep: /usr/include/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/rpcsvc/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/g++-3/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/g++-3/std/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/asm/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/byteorder/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/isdn/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/lockd/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/mtd/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/nfsd/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/raid/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/linux/sunrpc/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/arpa/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/bits/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/gnu/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/net/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netash/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netatalk/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netax25/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/neteconet/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netinet/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netipx/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netpacket/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netrom/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/netrose/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/nfs/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/protocols/*.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/rpc/*.h: No such file or directory

and so on
and so on

I have also tried

-exec {}/*.* \;
-exec {} \;

I finally got the result I wanted by using:

for dir in `find -/usr/include -type d`
do
grep sometext $dir
done 2>/dev/null

So....

what am I doing wrong?

thank you for your help

john