RE: Grep entire file system

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:24:08 -0500
Message-ID: <FBE1FCA40ECAD41180400050DA2BC54004E93C65@qtiexch2.qgraph.com>

Depending on the OS/utils version, you may wish to include a "-t" in the = xargs call, or you may not see what file it was found in.

Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com      QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA

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Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:50 PM
Subject: Re:Grep entire file system

> find ./ -type f -exec grep -i -l 'sqlplus' {} \;
> ----------------------------------------------
Friends don't let friends use -exec

This is several orders of magnitude faster:

find . -type f -print | xargs grep -i sqlplus

Jared

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