Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:42:47 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xargs still nok? Message-ID: <20050908144247.GG5555@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050908102658.GC5555@calimero.vinschen.de> <4320281B.6090005@lists.cichon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Sep 8 15:29, zzapper wrote: > On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200, wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: > >>>$ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host > >>>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Nothing to do with xargs. Use find instead of ls/w wildcards. > >> > >yes, you should rather write > >$ find . -name "*.cfm" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i host > > Is Xargs still reqd for > > find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; Did you try it before asking? Just a hint, in the above case "grep" is called once per file, when using xargs, it's only called as often as necessary with a filled command line, so using xargs is usually faster. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/