On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:06:57 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
> find . -name 'string' -exec grep -i fa {} \;
>
>or
>
> grep -i fa $(find . -name 'in*')
>
>...
>
>generally the second is faster.
>
Yes, but it will likewise fail on the OP's ARG_MAX problem. Also
will fail if any of the filenames contain metacharacters. One
wishes for the GNU find's -print0 option coupled with their xargs's
-0 option.
-- gil
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