Regex in file

[ken gray]

is there a way to search an entire directory branch for a term using regex without loading every file into memory/variable and then regex'ing that variable?

it just seems inefficient to load every file into memory to do this and wanted to know if there was a better way i was not aware of.

thanks.

[Gintaras]

No, need to load files.

[ken gray]

thanks.