find and searching for specific expression in files

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat May 30 16:25:21 UTC 2009


>
> Cut off the message a bit later and you will see that using a '+' to terminate
> the exec primitive emulates xargs behavior:

thanks. i didn't know that

>
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:12:50 Mel Flynn wrote:
>> I use + rather then ; so that one
>> invocation for grep is done whenever maxarglen is hit (like if you used
>> xargs(1)), rather then one grep per file.
>
> -- 
> Mel
>
>


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