On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:31AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search > your whole hard drive for any file that has a record containing the > particular character string that you are looking for.
A better solution if you find yourself doing this often is to install an indexing system such as glimpse. This creates an index of files on a regular basis (e.g.: daily), then searches the index, rapidly, for the terms you're looking for. I believe it also respects security -- e.g.: glimpse doesn't return files found which you wouldn't be able to look at. The advantages are faster response and lower system load. Any chaining of find and grep is going to require scanning and searching many files. glimpse and similar tools do this work once. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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