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From: billw@wolf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: egrep, fgrep, grep
Message-ID: <276@wolf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 18:47:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 29 18:47:52 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Mar-87 01:49:57 EST
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I have always used grep when searching expressions, and gotten along fine. So
what is the difference between grep, egrep, and fgrep? I am on a PC AT running
SCO Xenix: no man pages. But even when I do pull the man page off of a 3b2, it
just muddies the water further. Help.
-- 
Bill Wisner
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