On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:36:12PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.09.21.1528 +0100]: > > well, I do not know the implementation of egrep. If it is > > intelligent it simply discards constructions like .*$ > > It would still take more time. I really don't want anyone to use .*$.
However I also don't want people to avoid using it due for performance. However $ time grep -E '^..*$' /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l 98342 real 0m0.273s $ time grep -E '^.' /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l 98553 real 0m0.148s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
