On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:33:12PM +0530, Ramprasad wrote: > My logfiles are approx 1.5 GB each, if we rotate twice a day > grep sender.*recipient $logfile is really much much faster than grep > -i sender.*recipient $logfile > IMHO grep would not count as lousy code ( on linux )
Use "egrep -i", and make sure you have "LANG=C" in the environment (or equivalent). Doing case-insensitive Unicode matches is likely much more painful than ASCII matches. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.