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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: recursive grep 
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> 
> : > find /usr/local | xargs grep foo
> : and why do we need an extra pipe, either?
> : 
> : 	find /usr/include -name \*f.h -exec grep foo {} /dev/null \;
> 
> The extra pipe will fork/exec grep once for each 100k or so characters
> of command line args, while this will fork/exec grep for each file.
> Guess which one is likely to be faster :-).
> 
> Warner
> 

Oh, well anyhow _SC_ARG_MAX is set at 64k which I have found exceedingly
low.  How do you change this anyways?

I've written a rcs front end that execs a ci command with a bunch of 
filenames buffered.  It has to split this in order to checkin something
like the emacs source tree, how annoying :)

-josh