Month: September 2016

UNIX tip of the day – grep -P is slow

Unless you really need some advanced regular expressions only supported by PCRE, using POSIX regular expressions with grep is usually an order of magnitude faster – that’s because the default engine with grep uses finite automata, as opposed to a backtracking algorithm which PCRE uses ( the main featuress you gain from the backtracking algorithm…

September 28, 2016

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UNIX tip of the day – grep -P is slow