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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can I speed up my grep command? Post 302863521 by emc^24sho on Monday 14th of October 2013 02:28:57 PM
Old 10-14-2013
It show's the files correct files along with all of the details... I don't understand why it won't grab them without the
Code:
ls -al part

When I remove this section. The commands act like they run then just return with a prompt but no filenames... It takes like 45 minutes for that to happen...

---------- Post updated at 01:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:28 PM ----------

I'm trying to read every MKS toolkit & Kornshell pdf that I can find trying to solve this.....

---------- Post updated at 01:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:29 PM ----------

I really do appreciate all of the help that everybody is giving me! Big THANK YOU ALL!

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This command line takes 45 minutes and returns nothing!
Code:
find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l "Status" {} \;

While this one comes right back showing all of xmls plus their details!
Code:
find . -name "*.xml" -exec ls -al {} \; -exec grep -l "Status" {} \;

Does anybody have a clue why?

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It's not running the second half of those commands. (The grep -l part)....

---------- Post updated at 02:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:26 PM ----------

I put in this code per status and got back all statuses..
Code:
find . -name "*.xml" -exec ls -al {} \; -exec grep -l "AStatus" {} \;

Where A is one of (A,B,C Status) And the command returned all xml files....
 

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