On 19 February 2013 19:00, Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:56:26 -0600, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Most shells won't allow an argument list that long.
>> % find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep libfoobar.so \{} \;
>> has been shown to be faster than hacking around arg list limits with echo
>> |
>> xargs.
>
>
> The following may prove to be even faster as it fills the shell argument
> list as full as possible for each execution of grep.
>
> % find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep libfoobar.so \{} +
>
> (notice the + at the end)
>
> It's something I picked up from here: http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html
>I deliberately chose \; because most tests show no difference, and for some reason it fails on csh :/ http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/find-plus Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
