linux + find word in file under directory but quickly

Question

I have the following command

find /var  -type f -exec grep "param1" {} \; -print

With this command I can find the param1 string in any file under /var

but the time that it take for this is very long.

I need other possibility to find string in file but much more faster then my example

THX

yael

Answer 1

grep -r "string"

The find is not neccesary.

This is a good link, though outdated.

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Also i think this belongs in superuser.com