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 16:46:29 +0200 (MEST) From: Alexander Gottwald To: zzapper cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xargs still nok? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050908102658.GC5555@calimero.vinschen.de> <4320281B.6090005@lists.cichon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, zzapper wrote: > >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 {} \; This is a speed issue. find -exec will spawn grep for each found entry while xargs will group as much files as possible and reduces the number of required grep calls. eg grep host file1 grep host file1 file2 ... file256 grep host file2 vs grep host file257 ... ... grep host file123456 bye ago -- Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 -- 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/