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		wazoox on April 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why GNU grep is fast Generally speaking, matching regexpes using perl instead of grep is often a win : `perl -p -e 'm/regexp/' somefile`

chaosfox on April 1, 2011 [–]

That will print the whole file regardless, I think you meant:

       perl -ne 'print if /regex/' file

wazoox on April 1, 2011 | [–]

Indeed :) Sorry for the mishap.

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