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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: egrep(1) bug fixed 
Message-ID: <3289@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 20:09:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 31 20:09:02 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 31-Oct-83 20:09:02 EST
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Egrep(1)'s -f option used standard input to read its file, a silly botch
that fouled up any attempt to pipe input to an egrep -f.  Fixed.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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