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Touche
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I'd also wager Select-String is an order of magnitude slower than grep or ag.
RamseyMcGrath
on Oct 6, 2015
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You'd be wrong (at least for grep)
http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine/post/2013/01/21/Grep-ver...
kuschku
on Oct 6, 2015
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Except, GNU grep is even faster than Select-String, if you run it on a better filesystem.
togusa
on Oct 6, 2015
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NTFS is only a turd on lots of small writes. It really flies on reads.
kuschku
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Unless it is fragmented heavily, which often tends to happen.
togusa
on Oct 7, 2015
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Pretty much a non issue since 2012. It defrags itself.
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