in reply to Search a text in a file

I don't know how fast you want it but on my system with a 14 meg file I can do a trivial pattern match over the entire file in 1.2 seconds.
$ time perl -e 'while (<>){$c++ if ($_=~/compaq/i)};print $c' *t
454
real        1.2
user        1.0
sys         0.1

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Can you be more specific?

Sweetblood

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