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From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Fast file scan
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Date: 26 Sep 90 16:58:51 GMT
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Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
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I`d like to know how to scan all files in a directory (and it's sub-
directories) for a specific string (without regular expressions) as fast
as possible with standard Unix tools and/or some special programs.

(I've written such a program, and would like to compare my implementation
of it with others.)

(Using the find+fgrep combination is slooooow....)

Any ideas?


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Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
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