On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:51:54 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote:
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com 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
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:30:53 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
On Feb 8, 9:32 am, Icarus Sparry i.sparry...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
The 'modern' way to do this is
find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever {} +
The key thing which makes this 'modern' is the '+' at the end of the
command
