On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:30:53 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
> On Feb 8, 9:32 am, Icarus Sparry wrote:
[snip]
>> The 'modern' way to do this is
>> find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever {} +
>>
>> The key thing which makes this 'modern&#
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:51:54 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
>
>> problem with find xargs is that they spawn grep for each file, which
>> becomes too slow to be usable.
>
> find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html -print0 | xargs -0 grep whatever
>
> will call grep with a list of filenam
