RE: Grep entire file system

From: Smith, Ron L. <rlsmith_at_kmg.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:08:18 -0500
Message-ID: <270A0BDDFDE54E41B78F0F06D82A66B8508E3C@okcexg3.kmg.com>

Thank you all very much for the examples. It really helped!

Ron

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared.Still_at_radisys.com
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:50 PM
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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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