Regex on a huge text

[Medardo Rodriguez (Merchise Group)]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Does not grep only work a line at a time?  Just like the code below?

My understanding was that if the regex contains "^" and "$", it will
matches in the full file. I wasn't never test it.
I tested just before, and didn't work :(

If you have a notion of the maximum amount of lines, there is an easy solution.

Regards