"dinner time, hold on while i grep my desk for my car keys" - ken anon

On 31 March 2012 00:13, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that 
>> do
>> not provide /dev/null, right?
>
> grep(1) has a -s option.  this is obviously useful because for
> large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read.
>
> - erik
>



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