On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Alin Năstac <mrness@g.o> wrote:
> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
>>
>> "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@...> writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The tree's small enough that grep -r gives enough performance.
>>>
>>
>> Even better
>>
>> grep */*/metadata.xml
>>
>> the tree is not big enough that it exceeds the maximum arguments from
>> bash.
>>
>>
>
> According to my local copy, we have 12876 metadata.xml files.
> Something tells me that your command line will exceed the maximum command
> line length supported by any shell ;)
>
>

Although it'll be a bit slower than a direct grep: for m in `find
/usr/portage -name metadata.xml `; do grep -Rn foo $m;done