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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:13:27 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] who would have guessed.
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> btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that do
> not provide /dev/null, right?

grep(1) has a -s option.  this is obviously useful because for
large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read.

- erik