can grep use filenames from stdin?

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 3/19/07, Paul Fox <pgf at brightstareng.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > yes but xargs will spawn grep for each file and grep will then compile
>  > the pattern everytime.
>
> no, that's wrong.  part of the point of xargs is to run the
> command as few times as possible, while keeping the number of
> arguments to the command under the system's command-length limit.
>
> paul
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does busybox xargs do that?

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