From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!cornell!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!davidson Newsgroups: net.unix-wizar Title: Re: *grep - (nf) Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.95 Posted: Fri Apr 1 13:00:18 1983 Received: Sun Apr 3 00:22:45 1983 References: pur-ee.842 What has always troubled me about the *grep family is why I have to think about what kind of pattern I'm using, when grep could simply look and see, then use the appropriate algorithm. -Greg