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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "look" utility?
Message-ID: <846@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 20:40:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 20:40:53 1987
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <1145@ihlpf.ATT.COM> straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) writes:
>>     look consults a sorted file and prints all lines that begin with string.
>>     It uses binary search.
>> Note that look searches for a literal string, not a regular expression.
>> You could use grep, but for a sizable file look can be hundreds of times
>> faster.
>
>What about using fgrep?
>Or possibly grep "^string"?

What about it?  look is still hundreds of times faster.
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