current-users: Re: Recursive grep (where is limfree defined?)

Subject: Re: Recursive grep (where is limfree defined?)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: current-users
Date: 01/23/1996 14:58:27

> why build unnecessary (and, in my opinion, dumb) functionality into
> grep?

Yeah... for those wanting to find symbols really quick, have a look at glimpse.
It pre-builds an index of (say) /usr/src, and then you just say 'glimpse
limfree'. By what i've observed, it's faster and less io-intensive then the
find/grep-combination.


Hubert


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