Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 18:48:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recursive grep Message-ID: <199601230148.SAA01369@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:31:37 PST
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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
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