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No it isn't. Unless grep is capable of skipping entire blocks (4096 bytes) it still has to pull that data off the disk.
by scrooched_moose 8y ago
No it isn't. Unless grep is capable of skipping entire blocks (4096 bytes) it still has to pull that data off the disk.
- BeeOnRope 8y agoNo because most blocks will be found in the file system cache.