Subject: Re: grep question
From: Gary Johnson (gjohnson@agilent.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 18:08:39 CST
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 04:51:06PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> find . -name *.bar -print0 | xargs -0 grep bing.*bong /dev/null
>
> will bemarginally quicker, as it will only fire off one grep process
> for every 20 files (I think that's the default). And you'll see the
> filename on the same line as the text, which is much nicer :)
Also, you should quote any wild cards in the -name argument to prevent
the shell from expanding that argument before passing it to find, e.g.,
find . -name \*.bar -print0 | xargs -0 grep bing.*bong /dev/null
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
gjohnson@agilent.com | RF Communications Product Generation Unit
| Spokane, Washington, USA
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