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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files
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>
> Cut off the message a bit later and you will see that using a '+' to terminate
> the exec primitive emulates xargs behavior:

thanks. i didn't know that

>
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:12:50 Mel Flynn wrote:
>> I use + rather then ; so that one
>> invocation for grep is done whenever maxarglen is hit (like if you used
>> xargs(1)), rather then one grep per file.
>
> -- 
> Mel
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>