[clue-tech] recursive grep

[David L. Willson]

It wouldn't be much of a race. 'grep' without 'find' never finishes. I think it's following upward symlinks.

David L. Willson
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----- "Greg Knaddison" <Greg at GrowingVentureSolutions.com> wrote:

> 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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> Willson
> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:19 PM
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> > Subject: [clue-tech] recursive grep
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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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