LCD 47 wrote: > The easy way: > > fgrep -wf small_file.txt big_file.txt > I'd like to expand a bit on what LCD mentioned: fgrep will build a finite state automaton to do the matching as if it was running all the matching in parallel; it will find matches with one pass, no backing up, through the large text file. In other words, it'll be fast.
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