Unix Programming - Re: Recursive patter search in UNIX

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Re: Recursive patter search in UNIX

Erik de Castro Lopo

2005-11-18, 7:01 pm

David Wahler wrote:
>
> Jim Cochrane wrote:
>
> I tend to prefer:
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0r grep -l '\<ABC\>'
>
> This avoids the overhead of restarting grep for each file; if you have
> a lot of files and a slow computer, this can noticeably speed up the
> process.

Why not:

grep -l -r ABC .

This works with GNU grep.

Erik
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