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From: lm@slovax.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: Fast file scan
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Date: 1 Oct 90 00:48:50 GMT
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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.
>
>(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?

I would probably use ftw(3).  I've found it a useful tool.  
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