[lug] Limits of grep?

[Subba Rao]

On  0, "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs at quiotix.com> wrote:
> Subba Rao wrote:
> > 
> > On  0, "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs at quiotix.com> wrote:
> > > Subba Rao wrote:
> > > > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of
> > > > files?
> > >
> > > cd [directory to search]
> > > find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep [string to match] /dev/null
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks for replying. The following solution worked for me and is much faster.
> > 
> > find <path> -print | xargs -n 500 grep <pattern>
> 
> That shouldn't be any faster than what I wrote.  What makes you think it
> is?
> 

Earlier I did not time the command you sent me. After timing them, I see
better performance with your command construct. Sorry about that Jeff. ;-)

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