Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Fast file scan
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.014358.15580@virtech.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 90 01:43:58 GMT
References: <299@lysator.liu.se>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <299@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
>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.
>
>(Using the find+fgrep combination is slooooow....)

Try find + xargs + fgrep.

Try find + xargs + gnu-grep


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