Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:56:34 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recursive grep Message-ID: <199601230156.RAA13283@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:31:37 PST." <199601230131.RAA11361@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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>> : I would like add options for recursive searching
>> : (grep -R foo /usr/include).
>>
>> find /usr/local | xargs grep foo
>>
>> Why do we need another wart on grep? Especially when what you may
>> want is find /usr/local -name \*f.h | xargs grep foo :-)
>>
>> Warner
>
>and why do we need an extra pipe, either?
>
> find /usr/include -name \*f.h -exec grep foo {} /dev/null \;
Warner's example execs grep once (actually #files / xargs file limit).
Your example execs grep for each file. Even though our pipe bandwidth
isn't the best, I'd rather use a pipe then exec grep a bazillion time
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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