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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
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Date: 23 Aug 89 01:00:22 GMT
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In article <13710@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) writes:

>	If you're trying to grep for a string in every file in or below the
>current directory, why not do this:
>
>	find . -type f -exec grep string {} \;

Because exec'ing one grep for each file is slower than exec'ing one
grep with multiple file arguments for each directory in the hierarchy.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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