Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!well!dv
From: dv@well.UUCP (David W. Vezie)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.wanted
Subject: Re: Need unix command file HELP!
Message-ID: <698@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 12:42:36 EST
Article-I.D.: well.698
Posted: Mon Feb 24 12:42:36 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 20:36:45 EST
References: <245@aero.ARPA> <587@smeagol.UUCP> <259@hadron.UUCP> <144@wgivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dv@well.UUCP (David W. Vezie)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
Lines: 14
Xref: linus net.unix:6642 net.unix-wizards:14113 net.wanted:7580

In article <144@wgivax.UUCP> mo@wgivax.UUCP writes:
>WRONG!  fgrep -l WILL print the file name, and WILL NOT print the string
>        it will look for ONLY the first occurrence in a file, speeding
>		things up, AND fgrep is faster than grep
>

Ummm...  I don't know about your machine, but I just did an informal
benchmark comparing {e,,f}grep for speed, and found out that of the
three, egrep is fastest, followed by grep, and slowest was fgrep.
(this is on 4.2BSD)
--- 
David W. Vezie
	    {dual|hplabs}!well!dv - Whole Earth 'Lectronics Link, Sausalito, CA
(4 lines, 113 chars)