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From: edwards@h-sc1.UUCP (william edwards)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs
Subject: Re: Universal FGREP bug
Message-ID: <499@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 19:29:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: h-sc1.499
Posted: Sun Aug  4 19:29:48 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 20:09:57 EDT
References: <8770@microsoft.UUCP> <5856@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: edwards@h-sc1.UUCP (william edwards)
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
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Summary: 

In article <5856@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>(For anyone mystified by this discussion:  -y is the "dualcase" option
>that makes lowercase pattern letters match either lowercase or uppercase
>data letters.)

In 4.2 BSD, the '-i' option to fgrep and grep makes them ignore case
distinctions in pattern matching.

						Bill Edwards