Re: grep patch

[Kris Warkentin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stepan Koltsov" <address@hidden>
To: "Alain Magloire" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>;
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: grep patch


> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:27:22AM -0500, Alain Magloire wrote:
> ...
...
> >as been part of 2.5e(should in 2.5f) for sometimes.
> > They were not meant to replace find, but rather a quicker way to
> > express this particular idiom.
>
> Maybe more proper way is to modify grep, allowing it to take filelist
> from file, including stdin? Then we can do something like:
>
> find . -name '*.h' | grep --filelist=- pattern
> or even
> find . -name '*.h' -print0 | grep --filelist0=- pattern
>
> Find will find, grep will grep, perfomace will be good :-)

find . -name '*.h' | xargs grep pattern

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