bug#60506: feature: parallel grep --recursive

2023-01-02 Thread Eike Dierks
Hi at the gnu grep development team I'd like to suggest a new feature for: grep --recursive The grep --recursive should work in parallel. Rational: This could speed up the grep by the numbers of threads Currently, the --recursive option works on every file in sequence. Instead, I want to start

bug#60506: parallel grep

2023-01-06 Thread Eike Dierks
I was thinking about this again. It looked easy at first, but it is not. My prime use would be to grep in /usr/include That would search a lot of files, but only return a few results. In that case, searching a lot of files in parallel could be beneficial. But it gets a lot more troublesome, if yo