xargs still nok?
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Thu Sep 8 14:50:00 GMT 2005
zzapper wrote:
>Is Xargs still reqd for
>
>find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \;
>
>
Well, not exatctly. grep -i does not show you the filename, if you call
it this way.
You could either use
find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i something {} /dev/null \;
which would make grep to show the filename. grep will think that it
searches multiple files, and will not find something in /dev/null. This
solution works well under Unix. With Cygwin, you may not have devices
available in /dev, depending on your installation.
The solution with xargs is probably faster with a large number of files
because the grep program is not started that often.
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