-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ wrote: | * Stefan Seifert -- Thursday 17 January 2008: |> find . -name \*.xml | xargs grep vsi-3d | | I didn't use this because this puts all file paths into the | command line buffer, and it depends on the buffer size whether | it works or not (unlike with "while read"). I remember cases | where it didn't work, but I just tried again and it did! Is | this now done with dynamic allocation in modern Linux kernels?
xargs guarantees that the argument space won't overflow; it invokes grep repeatedly with as many arguments as it can until all the arguments are consumed. To add to this crazy thread, you can use the --include argument to GNU grep to search certain files: grep -r -e vsi-3d --include='*.xml' . However, I never do that. I use the 'rgrep' and 'lgrep' commands inside emacs 22; very convenient for visiting all the hits returned by grep. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHj08DeDhWHdXrDRURAmlzAKCtlB8Cm0huQbFAPLkAihH62Y3blgCg28Xx 7QiL19vVE3w3udaWpORxxvw= =BIpy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
