On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 13:53 +0530, Vimal wrote:
> You could use find and it's exec option. Or, you could also use find and xargs.
>
> $ find . -type f -iname '*.h' -exec grep -H 'test' {} \;
> or
> $ find . -type f -iname '*.h' | xargs grep -H 'test'
xargs is going to be the more efficient option
> `xargs program-with-options' does something like this:
>
> for each line in stdin:
> invoke program-with-options $line
Actually, it's more like
while stdin not empty:
args_list = []
while arg_list < maximum length:
push a line from stdin into arg_list
invoke program with arg_list
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