On 28/06/2016 13:45, Fergus Daly wrote: > For ages I have been able to run through all the files under a directory changing occurrences of string1 to string2 with the command > find dirname -type f | xargs sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' > It used to take no time at all for say 6000 files. > Now the same command just hangs. > The files are all text files, no binaries or anything awkward. Just don't understand it. > (By contrast > find dirname -type f | xargs md5sum > still works just fine. 6000 files in less than a second.) > Fergus > sed is unchanged from at least 2013, so it must be something else. Any idea on the file where is hanging ? As usual, please follow https://cygwin.com/problems.html and provide a cygcheck.out. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple