QFind -- a quick simple file search program Richard E. Sweet c Copyright 1985 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. QFind is a file scanning program similar in spirit to Grep. It lacks most of the functionality of Grep, but makes up for it by being 3-4 times as fast. It finds only simple text keys (no regular expressions, wild cards, etc.) and has only one switch (-c) for optionally being case sensitive. Typical usage: QFind [-c] If contains blanks, it must be enclosed in quotes ("). This is approximately equivalent to Grep -o [-c] . The number of matches reported by the two programs differs in that QFind, after printing out the line containing a match, doesn't bother to look on the rest of that line for further matches. QFind uses the Boyer-Moore sub-linear search algorithm; the longer the key, the faster the search. <QFindDoc.tioga Sweet December 5, 1985 10:51:45 am PST Êh˜šœ™Icode™&—J˜Isubtitle˜,Iauthors˜IabstractšÐmsÏs8˜9Iblock˜O˜³O˜d—…—”8