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    I thought about this, and this would probably be helped by batching the search. Using grep -f on huge amounts of patterns ofter makes the process run into memory issues. Commented Mar 22, 2019 at 20:46
  • Thanks @glenn -- I'll play around with this over the weekend .. It's a good mention also about the -f flag and memory .. I'll be sure to watch top and make sure all is well. Commented Mar 22, 2019 at 23:20