nonotmeplease
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% du -h a
1.1G a
% time look 'dog' a | wc -l
53856
real 0m0.021s
user 0m0.020s
sys 0m0.003s
% time grep '^dog' a | wc -l
53856
real 0m28.593s
user 0m0.977s
sys 0m2.223s
Ok grep performed worse than what I expected (sort took a long time though).My main point is that we fail to use the tools we have properly and build something that is more powerful than needed. And sometimes this is damaging too (e.g. sites taking minutes to load, etc.).
BTW not having features sometimes IS a feature. YMMV.