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[Nick Bannon]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:04:56AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
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> I *think* the answer was it was the same as grep (not egrep), but then I 
> later complained about grep and found there was a shiny new version of 
> that too (now grep -E == egrep).

That's the tradeoffs again. There are in fact three versions - fgrep,
grep and egrep, though GNU folds them all into one program.

fgrep is a simple fixed-string search. Fast, possibly fewer pathological
cases, no complicated syntax or metacharacters to worry about.

grep is the "basic" regular expression printer. It can be faster than
fgrep in some cases.

egrep is the "extended" regexp printer. More comprehensive, but
potentially slower, it includes things like alternates "|". With GNU
it's otherwise pretty much identical to grep.

> I did suggest lifting the grep documentation and inserting it into sed's; 
> the bug-fixer agreed that's sensible. Now I guess it's just a matter of 
> time until it filters through.

Yeah... Question is - has it actually been fixed and haven't the
distributions seen the need to update it, or has no-one submitted a
documentation patch?

Nick.

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