Re: Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Probably because find has been optimized for, umm, finding files.  There
> > > are quite a few things you can do to speed up directory traversal.
> > I guess it also depends on what kind of OS you are using, is process
> > creation cheap or not.
>
> Neither method should use many processes unless the command-line
> arg limit is very short (though on windows, maybe that's the case...).
>
> -Miles

I believed that grep had to be started many times. Is not that the case?