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If you're just using find to run grep against all files then you would be better off using the recursive flag in grep instead

• kjeetgill 9y ago
  I like the composition of tools, it lets you extend your usage pretty easily. I personally run this 20 times a day: find -name '*.java' | xargs grep 'pattern'
  • laumars 9y ago
    But at least there you're searching for specific files. I was talking only about running a find to launch an instance of grep for every file found. That's more keystrokes to get a slower result. For what it's worth, my biggest usage of find is similar to your java example (except a different file extension). I also do do '-exec sed...') a lot too.
  • zokier 9y ago
    if you are piping to xargs, for love of god at least use -print0
  • meowface 9y ago
    With ag: ag -G java pattern