On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:36 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.09.21.1528 +0100]: > > well, I do not know the implementation of egrep. If it is > > intelligent it simply discards constructions like .*$ > > It would still take more time.
yep. but only once to preprocess the pattern and not during actual pattern matching - given that grep does anything like that. _______________________________________________ Logcheck-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/logcheck-devel
