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Small note: For GNU grep on single regexes at least, the -F flag should not impact performance. It is smart enough to see through a pattern as a literal and avo
by burntsushi 9y ago
Small note: For GNU grep on single regexes at least, the -F flag should not impact performance. It is smart enough to see through a pattern as a literal and avoid the regex engine.
- assafmo 9y agoThanks, I didn't know this.
- dullgiulio 9y agoOf course you might still want to use fgrep to make sure + and . match with the characters and are not interpreted like regular expression operators.