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Using an index to make grep faster?

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Mar 15, 20269084 views

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I find myself grepping the same codebase over and over. While it works great, each command takes about 10 seconds, so I am thinking about ways to make it faster. So can use some sort of index? I understand an index probably won't help for complicated regexps, but I use mostly very simple patters. D…

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Full-text indexing There are tools such as recoll, swish-e and sphinx but you'd have to check if they can support the sort of search criteria you need. Recoll Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux. Swish-e Swish-e is a fast, flex…

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