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.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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