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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) 
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:07:26 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> b$ time ./grep -E '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile > /dev/null
> b$ time grep '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile > /dev/null

You think that's fair? Surely you can't expect Jamie's extended regex
support to outperform GNU's simple regex support? :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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