Fast file scan

[J.T. Conklin]

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....)

I have found that find+xargs+fgrep to be quite reasonable when I need
to perform such a task as yours.   Are you possibly ommiting the xargs,
thus forcing find to exec a fgrep for each file?

	--jtc


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