> From: Jeff Thieleke <thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 19:27:36 -0600 (CST)
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> > >Where is limfree defined?
> > 
> > find /usr/src/sys -name '*.c' -exec grep '^limfree' '{}' /dev/null \;
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> 
> 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.

The patch you sent may be a good idea, but running grep that way is
not what you want to be doing.  Try:

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

David