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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman DOT andrew AT epa DOT gov>
Subject:  Re: bash, find | xargs grep
Date:  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:34:11 -0500
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> 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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