Subj : Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
To   : Bob Worm
From : MRO
Date : Tue Oct 14 2025 20:38:52

  Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
  By: Bob Worm to deon on Tue Oct 14 2025 11:33 am

 > Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
 > By: deon to phigan on Thu Oct 09 2025 09:53:45

 > Hi, deon.

 >  > And for what it's worth, "ag" is so much faster than grep :)

 > We are so spoiled with modern computer performance that I don't think
 > I can remember a single time when I've sat there thinking "I wish
 > this grep would hurry up".

 > Having said that I didn't touch any OS that *had* grep until I
 > ordered the FreeBSD 4.3 (?) CD set, which would have been running
 > on Pentium II or similar. I probably wouldn't have grep'd anything
 > serious for another decade after that.


I've been using grep for decades. now i use it to parse large logs.
i never look at grep and think 'wow this isn't fast enough'.
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