>>>>> "Arun" == Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arun> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:31:21PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali
Arun> wrote:
>> Do not fear as rgrep is near !! Use it dude ;-) And as for my
>> grep it is like this ;-)
>>
>> sidgeek@DemiUrge:~$ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.4
Arun> Don't let your UNIX be corrupted by such unholy ideas :) Do
Arun> as Raj suggested:
Arun> find . -name '*.pattern' | xargs grep word
Arun> Keep grep simple - not every command needs to know how to do
Arun> pattern matching and file tree walking :)
And while I am not worried whether I am right or wrong !!
I would like to explain one two things about why using
using
find . -type -name "someghhing.ext" -exec grep serching {} \;
is not suggested where as what
arun suggested find . -name '*.pattern' | xargs grep word
is right !!
-- start explanation ;-) ----------------
The use of the -exec flag causes a lot of overhead that can be eliminated with the
command xargs.
xargs is a command that is used to build and execute command lines from standard
input.
The one which Arun suggested is faster and more efficient (?) because only one copy of
grep will be
spawned rather than one copy of grep for every file that matches
-- end explanation ;-) --------------------------
HTH
Regards
Khader
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