There's no need for special logic in grep to run parallel grep's.
The "parallel" command can handle that for you.
For example, on the 12 core, 24 thread Ryzen CPU that I am using:
find $HOME -xdev -type f -ctime -333 | wc -l ## counts 136126 files.
find $HOME -xdev -type f -ctime -333 |
parallel -m grep -l foobar | wc -l ## takes about 13
seconds
find $HOME -xdev -type f -ctime -333 |
xargs -d '\n' grep -l foobar | wc -l ## takes about 52
seconds
The above parallel invocation ran 24 grep commands in parallel, and took
about 1/4 the time, otherwise performing rather like xargs, which ran one grep
command at a time.
(Granted, reading either the 'parallel' or 'xargs' man pages is not easy
<grin>.)
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Paul Jackson
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