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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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