how about doing the egrep in the find?
will that speed it up, maybe
find . -type f -exec egrep "text to find" {} \;
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:japhy@;perlmonk.org]
Sent: 25 October 2002 01:50
To: Deb
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Subject: Re: a speedy find & grep?
On Oct 24, Deb said:
> From the command-line, I'm currently running a find command piped to
>xargs grep:
>
> find . -f print | xargs egrep "some string to look for"
Why not use the -r option to e?grep to do recursive searches?
egrep -r pattern .
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