Fast file scan (long)

[Rob McMahon]

In article <1990Oct17.183310.29684 at celebr.uucp> jbm at celebr.uucp (John B. Milton) writes:
>find . -type -f -print | xargs grep SEARCH

I always use

	find ... -print | xargs grep SEARCH /dev/null

in case the last file is all on its own, so that grep doesn't bother to report
the filename.

Rob
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