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Re:look(1): lines beginning with given string by ambrosio on Sunday December 13, 2015 @12:56AM (#10725549)
That seem abysmally slow for grep. On my machine, with a 1.1G file made of 1200 copies of /usr/share/dict/words, GNU grep 2.16 takes about 1.5 seconds. Try with LC_ALL=C?
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