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From: bruce@balilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Fast file scan
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.041451.3929@blilly.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 90 04:14:51 GMT
References: <299@lysator.liu.se> <143198@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <143198@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>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....)

Depends on how you do it. Try:
find . -print | xargs fgrep string

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

I believe find uses ftw.

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	Bruce Lilly		blilly!balilly!bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM