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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Full System Recursive Search for a String - Not Finishing Post 302751359 by shorn on Thursday 3rd of January 2013 07:58:40 PM
Old 01-03-2013
Question Full System Recursive Search for a String - Not Finishing

Using
Code:
grep -r -H "foobar" / > result

to give
all files that contain the string "foobar"

Half way , its waiting for some thing and does not end

Not Sure whats happening.
Any help is much appreciated

Thank you
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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