<quote who="Jobst Schmalenbach">

>  2: less (and more) kill the highlighting done by grep

Use less -R and *never* use more!

>  3: grep has to (internally) call the other processes to to the same I am
>  already doing with pipes

No, there's a massive difference between syscalls and forking processes.

>  4: (overly pedantic): can do more with find grep can ever do and I can
>  decide the order of my pipes and WHAT I want to do.

In some cases, yes. But most "search recursively for files that contain X"
use cases are better served by the vastly more performant grep -r.

- Jeff

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