[mew-int 00405] Re: Simple improvement for body greps

Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 ) kazu at example.com
Mon Aug 6 17:36:40 JST 2001


From: "David A. Panariti" <davep at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 00404] Simple improvement for body greps

> Setting mew-prog-grep-opts to '("-l" "-e") can help speed things up,
> especially for large message bodies that may be very large mime
> files.  The -l says just print the file name and exit after the *first*
> match.  Since we don't need the match text and don't need additional
> match info, using it can only help.  Of course, most of the time the
> difference will be insignifican, but we still might as well save the
> cycles. 

Great.

I found the "-l" option in the GNU grep program. Is this common among
other "grep"?

--Kazu



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