Thanks for help.

All of the sed is basically a large 'OR' boolean.

Any particular file, could have any sed condition, 1..."#conditions", so the the sed needs to search for a condition in the file before moving on to the next file.

Basically, the script has expanded over time and now it's getting to the point where I'd like to refactor it.

That is sort of the question, is it more efficient to let find search a massive amount of files and let sed chew on one condition at a time? Which it does now, which is basically unrolling the loops in your suggestion about concatening the sed to two exec commands?

or as you suggest, find pauses its search while let sed grind on one file searching all the conditions at once?

Say average files to search is ~ 100,000 files, average size ~40k/~100k

Thanks for the thoughts.