On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:07:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Albretch Mueller wrote:
> But newer POSIX standard find can use a {} + to launch grep once and
> to pass as many files on the command line as the system allows. That
> is faster since grep is launched only as many times as needed.
> Usually only once.
>
> $ find -name '*.extension' -exec grep -H 'pattern' {} +
Wow! I thought that such things can be done only by xargs. Thank you very much!
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Alexander Batischev
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