Rx

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Rx

   A pattern matcher compatible with {GNU} {regex}, but generally
   faster.

   Version 0.05, released 1994-05-18, contained substantial
   changes from the version last distributed with GNU {sed}.
   These changes provide low-level support for searching across
   arbitrarily fragmented strings and suspendable searches.
    

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