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Re:look(1): lines beginning with given string by mtdewcmu on Sunday December 13, 2015 @02:07PM (#10727420)
At some point the cost of scanning a long file will overcome the cost of doing log(n) seeks. On short files, it really doesn't matter what you do, searching will be fast regardless.
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