On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? > > for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is > scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 > million files. Even though the server is fast, it is still processing on > average 2 files per second. As far as I understand, with executing the skript, not only the files are scanned but also some binaries are executed several times for each file.
Would in not be best to write a little program that does the whole thing for you and stays in memory? This way the file is read once in a buffer, you operate on it and discard it. That should be much less overhead. Raoul
