Fast file scan

[Conor P. Cahill]

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.
>
>(Using the find+fgrep combination is slooooow....)

Try find + xargs + fgrep.

Try find + xargs + gnu-grep


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