Peng Yu wrote: > I'm wondering if there is any development to index files, so that grep > can search again the index instead of the original files for speed up. > > The manual doesn't seem to describe anything on indexing. I don't see > any useful results by a google search. Could anything body let me know > if this indexing feature is supported?
If you want to use index files, you may want to look for a different program (generating such files is typically expensive, and keeping them up to date is not trivial). I doubt that grep will ever create or use separate index files.
