[techtalk] Limits of grep?

[Lotta Loytonen]

Thanks for your help, all of you! It works fine.. slow as hell
though, but what can you expect with so many files.. 

> 
> find . -name '<name regex>' -print | xargs grep <regex> /dev/null
> 
> > Oh yeah, it's on AIX so it comes with its own grep etc, but we do have
> > a lot of gnu utilities installed too.
> 
> AIX's "find" and "grep" are both more than up to the task.
>
yeah, i actually don't usually bother about gnu grep, although a lot
of other people use it here. AIX stuff is just a bit different when
you're mainly used to Linux and to some extent SunOS.. It's like
trying to speak Norwegian when you know Swedish ;)


lotta