Re: GREP

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  is glimpse significantly better then locate?

	erik

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:31AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don (Don.Cavaiani@plexus.com) 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.
> 
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