Bruce Albrecht writes:
>   grep '^limfree' `find /usr/src/sys -name '*.c' -print `

>Is there some reason why this is worse than using a construct like 
>find | xargs | grep ?

The maximum size of the argument list is limited.  Xargs takes care of
that.
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Christoph Badura	bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

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