Re: [TCLUG:21649] Limits of grep?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:30:36AM -0500, dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:
> I think it would just be 
> 
> find . -type f | xargs grep pattern

If you're using find, is there ant advantage to using xargs instead of find
handling the filenames itself?

find . -type f -exec grep pattern {} \;

(Well, OK...  I guess my version is a few more keystrokes...)

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