On Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:46:20 -0500 (CDT),
dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com (David W. Tamkin) wrote:
Era Eriksson suggested to Mike Rose,
| You can probably get a bit better results with POG (plain ole grep :-)
| since it doesn't need the overhead of egrep's extended syntax.
No, that won't work for Mike's situation, because POG generally does not
support the -f option for reading a set of search expressions from a file.
POG needs to be told a single expression on its command line.
Not true for GNU grep. But in fact, both GNU grep and GNU egrep (yes,
they're the same binary) bail out when fed head -4316 /usr/dict/words.
head -4315 /usr/dict/words works fine. I'm still guessing that the
program looks at the file size before even trying to construct an
automaton but I should be going to the source before I say anything
more, I guess.
I'll stop now. :-)
/* era */
% head -4316 /usr/dict/words | wc
4316 4316 35338
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