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Date:      Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:49:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Jim Trigg" <jtrigg@spamcop.net>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_info question
Message-ID:  <15260.128.221.197.136.1119466158.squirrel@mail.scadian.net>
In-Reply-To: <42B9AA56.7010907@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Wed, June 22, 2005 2:13 pm, Björn König said:
> Thus I can search a file with
>
>    cat /path/to/somewhere | xargs grep 'pattern'

You can avoid wasting a process by using the following instead:

   xargs grep 'pattern' < /path/to/somewhere

Jim
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