[clue-tech] recursive grep

[Greg Knaddison]

I believe that adding find into the mix can make the process slower
than grep, unless you are using find to exclude some files.

It would be interesting to benchmark them.

Greg

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Clayton Fast <cfast at compassbilling.com> wrote:
> find . -exec grep -l text-i-want-find {} \;
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> Does anyone have a good idea for "find absolutely every file in haystack/,
> that mentions needle"?
>
> "grep -R needle /etc/*" and "grep -R needle /var/*"seem to run forever.
>
> I think it's a "find /etc -xtype f -exec grep ... something, but I can't
> think of the right something.
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