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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