t takahashi wrote: > xargs is insufficient partly because it cannot efficiently call > shell functions. this is important for a variety of reasons > including being able to preprocess files. preprocessing can > include uncompressing, unarchiving, and so on.
If one needs more complicated processing like this, one should write a custom script, imho. (Later, if the script is general enough, it might be worth including it in grep.) > however, imho if there is to be a grep -r, it needs to not > recurse symlinked dirs by default. Agreed. But see bug #4354 on Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=4354 > and i like the idea of grep improvements like allowing you to > specify that there be no colon after the filename Hmm? Where did find such proposal? And when would it be useful? Benno
