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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: cgname - collect file names from {e,f,}grep output
Keywords: egrep fgrep grep
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Date: 28 Jun 89 22:40:44 GMT
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>At least on BSD Unix, the -l flag on {,e,f}grep does the same thing except
>for sorting the output if the file list given to grep is not alphabetical.

I think it does so on every version of UNIX since V7; if the file list
is constructed from a "*" or "?" pattern, the shells with which I'm
familiar will sort it.

Is there something that "cgname" does that just using "-l" doesn't?