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From: rcodi@yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <779@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Date: 30 May 88 04:08:10 GMT
References: <3324@phri.UUCP>
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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From article <3324@phri.UUCP>, by roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith):
> It would certainly speed up things like
> 
> 	grep "^Subject: " /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/unix/*

> where I know that the pattern is going to be matched in the first few lines
> and don't want to bother searching the rest of the multi-killoline file.

A simple permutation:

 	head -60 /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/unix/* | grep "^Subject: "

works fairly close to the mark, and doesn't waste much time at all.

Ian D