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    So I guess, due to race conditions, grep might have read the 11th or 12th pattern already, but probably not the 100 thousandst? Commented Jan 25, 2012 at 16:12
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    This depends in part on the length of the lines and the size of the pipe buffer, but the short answer is that grep will reads some reasonably limited amount of extra data before being killed. Commented Jan 25, 2012 at 17:47
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    @userunknown, exactly. Commented Jan 25, 2012 at 19:41
  • Cool, I didn't know that happened. I thought grep would continue sending output into a void, similar to /dev/null Commented Jan 25, 2012 at 21:02