Re: encapulating a find function in a script

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:53:49AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > You may also find that using xargs instead of -exec is much faster
> > (fewer fork/execs).
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > find "$1" -name "$2" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H "$3"
> >
> > mrc
> > --
> 
> Thanks!  Tried it - works great.  Runs two or three times as fast
> and with half as many page faults.

Just remember that the -print0 and -0 are GNU extensions.  If you work on
other OS's, you may need to look at going back to -exec, or see if they
offer any similar extensions.

mrc
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