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Re: grep instead of sed

2000-10-06 15:49:55
When I suggested,

 | grep -v 'responded successfully$'

Charlie asked,

|    Silly question; is there an advantage to using grep reversed over sed
| delete?

grep has fewer features and functions than sed, so it is usually a smaller
binary to fork.  Also, because of its specialization, I believe it would run
faster than sed on that particular task.


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