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		pdw on Nov 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep GNU grep certainly honors locale settings, and recent versions are fast even when you're using UTF-8 (since release 2.7 or so).

X-Istence on Nov 28, 2012 [–]

Hmm, interesting. Work is being done on BSD grep to make it faster than it is, so hopefully in the near future the two will be on par.

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