Jim Reisert wrote: >On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Cooper, Karl (US SSA) ><karl.coo...@baesystems.com> wrote: > >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Or try LANG=C.ASCII since LANG=C will still return UTF-8 as charset >>> when calling nl_langinfo(CHARSET). >> >> Yes, this solves it: >> >> $ time LC_ALL=C.ASCII grep dog testfile | wc >> 100000 900000 4500000 >> >> real 0m0.359s >> user 0m0.279s >> sys 0m0.232s > > > I just tried this on my system, I routinely grep groups of files > containing 100K lines. I was *astounded* how fast "grep" is after > setting LC_ALL=C.ASCII !
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