On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Greg Thomas wrote: SNIP > > > > (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 > > One of the nice things about misc is that even if a discussion starts > out poorly I still end up learning something. > > Greg
glad I could help. ;-) diana
