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From: andyb@coat.com (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: the care and feeding of fgrep
Message-ID: <17245@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 24 Nov 89 18:53:06 GMT
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In article <453@nixba.UUCP> mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes:
>  "Fgrep patterns are fixed strings."  My question is, how the heck do
>  you give a list of strings as an arg to fgrep?

You separate them with newlines.  The way you type the newlines depends
on which shell you are using.

	#! /bin/sh			#! /bin/csh

	fgrep 'string1			fgrep 'string1\
	string2				string2\
	string3' files			string3' files

(You can use "" instead of '' if you prefer).

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