bash, find | xargs grep

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Wed Mar 15 18:38:00 GMT 2006


> I've been doing "find | xargs grep" types of things

Bob, I don't know the source of your trouble, but as a workaround consider
running grep -r instead of find | xargs grep.  In many cases it's equivalent
or almost as good, and it probably will avoid all of the forking that's
causing trouble for you.  A.


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