grep

[Tomasz Pala]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 18:59:49 +0100, wrobell wrote:

> when grep opens file, then it could check the size of the file, then
> read appropriate amount of bytes instead of reading until end of file.

It could called with some option, but not by default. Otherwise

grep sth /proc/sthelse

would not work (it's not working properly anyway;>).

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