Re: grep

[John.Cowan]

Bern Spence (bspence) scripsit:
> 
> We recently moved an application from Solaris to Red Hat Linux.
> 
> A grep command that used to take about 5 minutes on a large file
> is now taking about 90 minutes. 
> 
> grep -E  "BIND| RESULT" /opt/sysldap/tmp/LdapLogProces
> 
> Is this slowness a known problem and is there a work around?

Set the environment variable LC_ALL to "C".  Your problem is that
you are using the default Red Hat localization setting, which is causing
grep to work in UTF-8.

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