Fast file scan
Bruce Lilly
bruce at balilly.UUCP
Tue Oct 2 14:14:51 AEST 1990
In article <143198 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>In article <299 at lysator.liu.se> pen at 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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