Re: searching files for patterns

2000-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? Nope :) >for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is >scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 >million files. Even though the server is fast, it is sti

Re: searching files for patterns

2000-02-03 Thread Raoul van Putten
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? > > for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is > scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 > million files. Even though the server is

searching files for patterns

2000-02-03 Thread zdrysdal
need your help is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 million files. Even though the server is fast, it is still processing on avera