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Subject: Re: 1.7] BUG - GREP slows to a crawl with large number of matches        	on  	a single file
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On Nov  9 10:22, aputerguy wrote:
> My only remaining question is can we assume that this bug (or bad coding) is
> grep-specific or is it likely to rear its head in other core *nix utilities
> that use UTF-8?

Who knows?  Nobody is immune against creating bad code, right?


Corinna

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