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From: shawn@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Shawn Shealy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Fast file scan
Keywords: some examples
Message-ID: <6640@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 90 21:08:00 GMT
References: <299@lysator.liu.se> <1990Oct2.192028.29731@sco.COM>
Reply-To: shawn@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Shawn Shealy)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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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.

My favorite is:

find <Directory_Name> -type f -print | xargs fgrep "<Search_String>"

but I would not dare say that it is "as fast as possible".