On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 07:20:51PM +0800, Jialu Xu wrote: > > Just got a working grep without \K, seems that it is three times more > efficient than sed in my test, is it necessary to update? > > grep -Poh '(?<=^ )\S+|(?<== )\S+[^\\](?=$)' {} \+ | > > -- > Jialu > I just tried this and it does have better performance. Even better than your previous grep expression it seems, so I would definitely send a patch. -- Carlos Llamas