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Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files
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>> because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :).
>
> Discouraged because:
> - it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many
> subdirectories.

xargs is usefull too. i would it as forking for each 
file will make processing really slow. xargs can cut input data into given 
chunks with -n option, so grep will be called for say 100 files at once.