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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:42:47 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: xargs still nok?
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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

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