When you need to search inside files, as linux user you will think in "grep", but when you try to search in zillion of files (or just thousands), grep isn't the best option for that!
It's very slow especially when you use "-r" option (recursive), even if you are going to use "fgrep" or "grep -F" (--fixed-strings) which interprets patterns as a list of fixed strings), thus it's a little bit faster because it treats the strings literally and doesn't try to parse them with regex.
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It's very slow especially when you use "-r" option (recursive), even if you are going to use "fgrep" or "grep -F" (--fixed-strings) which interprets patterns as a list of fixed strings), thus it's a little bit faster because it treats the strings literally and doesn't try to parse them with regex.
