On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > (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 > ...
Cool, my miscue distracts everyone from Dave, sure glad I could help. diana Past hissy-fits are not a predictor of future hissy-fits. Nick Holland(06 Dec 2005)
