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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: fgrep on the UNIX-PC
Message-ID: <526@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 10:20:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 10:20:16 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jun-86 06:47:56 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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> One of the serious blunders that someone made in releasing the
> UNIX-PC software was the elimination of egrep and fgrep.
> (They simply made links to grep -- which is a swindle because
> egrep and fgrep do different things than grep in a REAL UNIX
> system).

[insert nice shell programming here]

> This shows how a little shell file using the Tools that are
> available can be written to do more useful things -- in this
> case to emulate the missing  'fgrep'  command.

Pretty neat, now how about egrep...
-- 
Jim Webb                                        ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw