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From: paulb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why fgrep?
Message-ID: <3550@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 88 17:47:11 GMT
References: <1050@naucse.UUCP> <9116@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: paulb@ncc1701.tti.com (Paul Blumstein)
Organization: Random Coders Association
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In article <9116@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
+In article <1050@naucse.UUCP> sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
+>Is there ever a situation (these days) where fgrep is
+>preferable to grep?
+
+Yes,
+	fgrep 'word1
+	word2
+	...
+	wordn' files ...
+

Make that:
	fgrep 'word1\
	word2\
	...
	wordn' file1 ...

You need that \ to tell the shell that more is coming (csh, anyway).
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