On 28 June 2016 at 09:32, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 28/06/2016 13:45, Fergus Daly wrote: >> >> For ages I have been able to run through all the files under a directory >> changing occurrences of string1 to string2 with the command >> find dirname -type f | xargs sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' >> It used to take no time at all for say 6000 files. >> Now the same command just hangs. >> The files are all text files, no binaries or anything awkward. Just don't >> understand it. >> (By contrast >> find dirname -type f | xargs md5sum >> still works just fine. 6000 files in less than a second.) >> Fergus >> > > sed is unchanged from at least 2013, so it must be something else.
Is is possible that this is related to a change in the Cygwin library? Fergus, what version of Cygwin are you running? Did you recently update to 2.5.2? Did this work as expected under 2.5.1? Cheers, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
