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Easily verify md5 checksums on files
Authored by: merlyn on Mar 17, '06 06:53:32AM

Actually, "-f" means "fixed", as in "not a regex", not "fast".

I've seen demonstrations of when it is actually *slower* in some versions of grep, because the "normal" grep has had a lot of optimizations over time, while people ignore the grep-f branch which takes a whole separate codepath.

Yes, counter-intuitive, like many things in life.



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