Re: grep patch

[Stepan Koltsov]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:07:54PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |> 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
> 
> This is shorter to type :-)
> 
> find . -name '*.h' | xargs grep -H pattern
> 
> find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H pattern

Your variant requires 1 fork-exec per file, it works slower.

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