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Except, GNU grep is even faster than Select-String, if you run it on a better filesystem.


NTFS is only a turd on lots of small writes. It really flies on reads.


Unless it is fragmented heavily, which often tends to happen.


Pretty much a non issue since 2012. It defrags itself.




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