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Feature request: include first line of file in output

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Message #46 received at 65416 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: lacsaP Patatetom <patatetom <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel Green <ddgreen <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj <at> usa.net>, arnold <at> skeeve.com, 65416 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65416: Feature request: include first line of file in output
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:56:58 +0200

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Le jeu. 24 août 2023 à 08:58, Daniel Green <ddgreen <at> gmail.com> a écrit :

> Re Perl's read speed, it's faster when not doing the line number check for
> every line. So `perl -ne 'print if (/pattern/)'` is only ~2.60s, compared
> to ~3.28s for `perl -ne 'print if ($. == 1 || /pattern/)'`. Doing nothing
> in Perl, i.e., `perl -ne ''` is only ~1.38s.
>
> Dan
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 6:22 PM Paul Jackson <pj <at> usa.net> wrote:
>
> > Ah - those times show another reason why one might
> > be motivated to keep requesting more options be added
> > to grep.
> >
> > From those timings, and from looking at the source, it's clear
> > that the FSF rewrote grep from scratch, sometime back in the
> > late 1980's or early 1990's, to have fast reads, whereas sed is
> > still using stdio fread in a classical manner, which is a painfully
> > slower double copy solution.
> >
> > If sed were still a widely used command in performance sensitive
> > applications, it should have some serious TLC applied to its
> > performance.
> >
> > However, since the pool of Jurassic Park Dinosaurs who can (and
> > perhaps do) compose sed commands in their sleep is a nearly
> > extinct breed, I see no sufficient interest in accepting such a rewrite
> > of sed, even if it showed up as a proposed checkin.
> >
> > That grep can even seriously beat perl for such raw read performance
> > is impressive.  Perl used to be the King of such challenges.
> >
> > --
> >                 Paul Jackson
> >                 pj <at> usa.net
> >
> >
> >
>

with a function, something like this :

headgrep() {
 head -1 "$2"
 grep "$1" "$2"
}

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