There is a text file with 1,000,000 lines of code floating around and Ctrl+F isn’t doing the job… What are my alternatives for quickly searching?
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There is a text file with 1,000,000 lines of code floating around and Ctrl+F isn’t doing the job… What are my alternatives for quickly searching?
From Linux
cat code.txt | grep -on “pattern“
Used python to generate a file with 1,000,000 lines, each containing a random 70 characters long string.
Then search for the pattern ABC, there were 3175 matches. It took 2.6 secs