Incidentally, ripgrep will actually be faster in this case generally (on Linux at least) when given an explicit file path, since that lets it use memory maps. F

Incidentally, ripgrep will actually be faster in this case generally (on Linux at least) when given an explicit file path, since that lets it use memory maps. For example: $ time rg QZQZQZQZ < subtitles.en.txt real 1.842 user 0.552 sys 1.287 maxmem 9 MB faults 0 $ time rg QZQZQZQZ subtitles.en.txt real 1.210 user 0.776 sys 0.433 maxmem 9510 MB faults 0 (See my other comments in this thread for where to get subtitles.en.txt.)