can grep use filenames from stdin?

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 3/19/07, Thompson Harmon [US], Stanley W.
<Stanley.Harmon at sperry.ngc.com> wrote:
> find . -name \*.c
> grep -l -e somepattern `!!`
>
> The above commands will give you the names of the c files containing somepattern.
>
> Stan
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> Subject: can grep use filenames from stdin?
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> can we make grep get filenames from stdin like:
>
> find . -name \*.c | grep -l -e somepattern
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yes but xargs will spawn grep for each file and grep will then compile
the pattern everytime.

maybe its better to use some sort of indexing scheme for insanely
humongous directories

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