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From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug)
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Date: 26 Jun 91 15:57:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: paul@taniwha.UUCP's message of 25 Jun 91 16:42:25 GMT

In article <878@taniwha.UUCP> paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) 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 ..... 

Here we go again:

fgrep is _NOT_ faster than egrep except for small inputs. Fgrep is
mostly a convenience utility, to be able to match dots & stuff with
ease.

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