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		sjs on June 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs He got the command wrong but his point stands: `find . -name '.py' -exec grep -H import '{}' \;`

ptramo on June 26, 2011 [–]

No he doesn't. That's a completely stupid compared to xargs as soon as you have more than a few files. You're starting one grep process per file.

Thanks for the laugh though.

sjs on June 26, 2011 | [–]

All of this is stupid compared to just using a good shell and doing grep import * * /*.py.

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