<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 -- Robot Parade http://www.robotparade.com.au/ m. +61 423 989 818 p. +61 2 9318 0284 f. +61 2 9318 2884 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
