Re: Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"?

[Miles Bader]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Probably because find has been optimized for, umm, finding files.  There
>> are quite a few things you can do to speed up directory traversal.
>
> I guess it also depends on what kind of OS you are using, is process
> creation cheap or not.

Neither method should use many processes unless the command-line
arg limit is very short (though on windows, maybe that's the case...).

-Miles
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