On 2006/02/13 16:53, Jason Crawford wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:03:27PM -0700, Diana Eichert wrote:
> > > find /usr/src -name "*.[c|h]" -exec grep 'bpf.h' /dev/null {} \;
> > ^(a) ^^^^^(b)
> >
> > (a) I doubt there are any file names ending in a pipe symbol in /usr/src.
> man ksh
it's in quotes, this is handled by find, not the shell.
> > (b) pipeing to xargs(1) may be faster.
> why?
grep foo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
vs.
grep foo 1
grep foo 2
grep foo 3
grep foo 4
grep foo 5
grep foo 6
grep foo 7
...
