Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > Hi, I just found grep being several orders of magnitude slower than > Gnu sed for doing the same task. I ran some timings, perhaps best if
Try the timings again with LC_ALL=C. $ time LC_ALL=C grep ethan deep-file-list > /dev/null Here is a recent posting. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2009-04/msg00008.html Bob