Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:32:48 -0800 (PST) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113183118.T3617@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311131524240.1234-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311131524240.1234-100000@java2.dpcsys.com>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Dan Busarow wrote:
> On Nov 13, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try
> > something like
> >
> > grep -r -li string *.c
>
> find . -name "*.c" -exec grep -li string {} \;
If there are a large number of files this will call grep numerous
times--it would be more efficient to pass to xargs so grep is only called
a few times:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep options string
Cheers,
Viktor
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