Fast file scan

[Jim Burns]

in article <MIKEP.90Oct2103839 at dirty.csc.ti.com>, mikep at dirty.csc.ti.com (Michael A. Petonic) says:

> In article <143198 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at slovax.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>>Lines: 14

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

> I can't see how 
> 	find . -type f -print | xargs fgrep foobar 
> is too slow...  If there were any speed advantage in hand crafting
> a program to do the same, I'm not sure it would be worth doing so.

Be warned that (usually) find (and du) don't follow symbolic links -
ftw(3) does.

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