Subject: Re: Recursive grep (where is limfree defined?)
To: Jeff Thieleke <thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 01/23/1996 21:30:06
According to Jeff Thieleke:
>
>> >Where is limfree defined?
>> 
>> find /usr/src/sys -name '*.c' -exec grep '^limfree' '{}' /dev/null \;
>
>
>I found this patch today on the FreeBSD hackers mailing list.  It patches
>the grep source to allow recursive searches.  Compared to the find method
>shown above, it is about 3-4x faster.
>

Hmmmm is it faster than:

find /usr/src/sys -name '*.c' -print | xargs grep '^limfree' /dev/null

doing an exec for each file would hurt a bit, xargs packs them up into
a reasonable chunk.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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