On 11 Jan 1999, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Scott K. Ellis <storm@stormcrow.org> wrote: > > >> The mist could be penetrated if only grep had a -R (recurse through > >> directories) option ;-) > > > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo > > Isn't "grep foo `find . -type f`" more efficient than the above? Not particularly, and definatly not if you have too many files to fit on one command line.