Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :).

Discouraged because:
- it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many
subdirectories.

xargs is usefull too. i would it as forking for each file will make processing really slow. xargs can cut input data into given chunks with -n option, so grep will be called for say 100 files at once.

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