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Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?
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On Thursday 23 September 2004 03:37 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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.

'grep -r .' even quicker. :)

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