Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:37:20 +0000 From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? Message-ID: <20040923193720.GB10928@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <b34be84204092312336001936a@mail.gmail.com> References: <b34be84204092304456066b0a0@mail.gmail.com> <009301c4a173$d468de90$7890a8c0@gits.invalid> <b34be84204092312336001936a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:33:27AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:46:26 +0200, Cyrille Lefevre
> <root@gits.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep !
>
> How does that work, out of curiosity?
>
> You can use the -exec feature of 'find' other wise -
>
> find . -type f -exec grep "something" {} /dev/null \;
Using the '-exec' feature of 'find' fork+exec for *every* file found.
Using xargs reduces the number of fork+exec by the number of filenames
that fit on the command line. So it runs much quicker.
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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