Grepping a huge file (80GB) any way to speed it up?

Question

 grep -i -A 5 -B 5 \'db_pd.Clients\'  eightygigsfile.sql

This has been running for an hour on a fairly powerful linux server which is otherwise not

Answer 1

Some trivial improvement:

• Remove the -i option, if you can, case insensitive is quite slow.

• Replace the . by \.

  A single point is the regex symbol to match any character, which is also slow