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Old 09-25-2002
grep - speed of search
I grepped for a string from a directory of very large files. This took quite a long time (not a problem). When I grepped for a different string from the same files immediately after, the output was MUCH quicker.

My question is, does anybody know why the second grep was so much quicker than the first? Is indexing used?

Any responses would be most welcome, thankyou.
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Old 09-25-2002
It's quicker because the system has cached the information into memory. If you had waited awhile, the system may have dropped the data from cache and it would have taken just as long.

FYI - grep is slower than egrep or fgrep but there is differences between fgrep and egrep.

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