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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug)
Message-ID: <878@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 91 16:42:25 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.132007.10674@panix.uucp>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1991Jun23.132007.10674@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>Also, quite interestingly, I've discovered that egrep seems to be _much_
>slower than grep at doing this.

this is why there are 3 greps fgrep is faster than grep is faster than egrep,
they all use different pattern matching algorithms ..... 

	Paul

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