grep a large list against a large file

Question

I am currently trying to grep a large list of ids (~5000) against an even larger csv file (3.000.000 lines).

I want all the csv lines, that contain an i

Answer 1

Try

grep -f the_ids.txt huge.csv

Additionally, since your patterns seem to be fixed strings, supplying the -F option might speed up grep.

   -F, --fixed-strings
          Interpret PATTERN as a  list  of  fixed  strings,  separated  by
          newlines,  any  of  which is to be matched.  (-F is specified by
          POSIX.)