Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: egrep hazardrous to your system's cnews health
Message-ID: <1991May13.161631.1652@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 16:16:31 GMT
References: <1991May11.040314.15393@colnet.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May11.040314.15393@colnet.uucp> res@colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) writes:
>Is this true on other systems?  I noticed that cnews tends to use egrep
>rather copiously.  Most of the instances could as easily use grep.  I am
>tempted to start a wholesale replacement.

On most systems egrep is faster, and its patterns are also more powerful.
We necessarily have to code for the usual situation rather than the odd ones.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry