On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:

>  * Along similar lines, use xargs(1):
> 
>      find . | xargs -n 1 grep variable
> 
>    ...the pipe can be broken with ^C, as per usual.
> 
> (The last (with -n 1) has the advantage of beginning grep operations ASAP,
> instead of trying to collect all of the filenames that it can, first.)

	This does have a lot more overhead though, as you fire off
	one grep for each file, plus you do not get the filename
	of each file in the output.

	You can try a variation with something like

		find . | xargs -n 50 grep variable

	but you still have a problem if the number of files % 50 is 1

	I suppose the complete solution would be

		(find . ; echo /dev/null ) | xargs -n 50 grep variable

	(but now we are getting silly :)
	

		David/absolute