On Friday 24 January 2003 13:36, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> There is also a separate program called 'rgrep' (IIRC there is, or was,
> such a redhat package)
It exists on Mandrake too. BTW, the rgrep man page (dated 1996) wrongly claims 
that grep doesn't recurse.

FWIW, I used **time** to compare performance found that grep is slightly 
faster.
grep :   12.38user 16.65system 6:11.68elapsed 7%CPU

rgrep:   12.19user 18.05system 6:17.64elapsed 8%CPU

-- 
Shlomo Solomon
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