On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:05:56PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> It does not when there's only one file matching the find-experssion
> (which is unclear when using find | xargs grep).
>
> [weerd@despair] $ find . -name pi.c
> ./pi.c
> [weerd@despair] $ find . -name pi.c | xargs grep main
> main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>
Yes, i think there is another exception when you accidently hit the maximum
number + 1 of arguments for one invocation, by default 5001 files then xargs
would execute:
grep main <5000 files>
and the last file as: grep main <one file> (and thus not printing the filename)
