[ale] find or locate text

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 01:35 pm, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael D Hirsch <mhirsch at nubridges.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>     >> That'll start up a grep for each file.  More efficient to use
>     >> xargs instead which will break the arguments up into batches.
>     >> That find invocation will also look at things such as
>     >> directories and device files as well as plain vanilla files;
>     >> better to limit with `-type f' rather than `-name \*'.
>     >>
>     >> find . -type f -print0 | xargs --null grep fooble
>
>     Michael> Why not use recusive grep: grep -r fooble *
>
>         Because that'd depend on having a GNU grep (not like -print0
> and xargs --null aren't GNUisms already, and this is a Linux list
> anyhow . . . :),

True.  Of course, he did state that he was using Redhat which does have 
gnu grep.

--Michael

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