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 ;)