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Open All files named generator.yml in all subdirectories of current directory in gedit

I’m no expert at shell scripting so I just want a quick answer. I tried something like

ls -R|grep generator|gedit

but It just doesn’t work because it’s just a stupid guess. So what’s the correct way?

UPDATE: answers by Jaypal Singh , kev and Sorin were very helpful but kev’s answer covers more cases so I’m marking that correct.

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Answer

find . -name 'generator.yml' -print0 | xargs -0 gedit

Or

find . -name 'generator.yml' -exec gedit {} +
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