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I use rgrep, it's reasonably fast. Found it on rufus.w3.org, though I could only find RPMs from Red Hat. It takes no modifications to install the rgrep-0.98.7-1 and slang-1.2.2-3 RPMs under SuSE. You might want to take a look at Glimpse as well. It's useful for a much smaller subset of text searching problems, but it's much, much faster. - Scott info@edoc.co.za wrote:
Hi,
I hope somebody can help me.
I have to search all the files in a directory and its subdirectories and their subdirectories for a string.
I can search a directory at a time with fgrep 'string' *.*, but this is taking ages to do for every dirictory.
Is their a way to grep recursively through the directories? I could not find anything like that in the manual.
Thanks
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