On Sep 8 15:29, zzapper wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200, wrote:
> >Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote:
> >>>$ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host
> >>>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> Nothing to do with xargs. Use find instead of ls/w wildcards.
> >>
> >yes, you should rather write
> >$ find . -name "*.cfm" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i host
>
> Is Xargs still reqd for
>
> find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \;
Did you try it before asking? Just a hint, in the above case "grep"
is called once per file, when using xargs, it's only called as often
as necessary with a filled command line, so using xargs is usually
faster.
Corinna
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