Jim Trigg wrote: > On Wed, June 22, 2005 2:13 pm, Björn König said: > >>Thus I can search a file with >> >> cat /path/to/somewhere | xargs grep 'pattern' > > You can avoid wasting a process by using the following instead: > > xargs grep 'pattern' < /path/to/somewhere Thanks. Where is my UUOC award? ;-) Björn