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Date:      Sat, 30 May 2009 18:25:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: find and searching for specific expression in files
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905301824560.18929@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200905301812.25320.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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> Cut off the message a bit later and you will see that using a '+' to terminate
> the exec primitive emulates xargs behavior:

thanks. i didn't know that

>
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:12:50 Mel Flynn wrote:
>> I use + rather then ; so that one
>> invocation for grep is done whenever maxarglen is hit (like if you used
>> xargs(1)), rather then one grep per file.
>
> -- 
> Mel
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