Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!rml
From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why fgrep?
Message-ID: <5740036@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 88 00:52:28 GMT
References: <1050@naucse.UUCP>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
Lines: 6

Another reason to use fgrep in some places is that it does no regular
expression matching.  This makes it suitable for matching arbitrary
strings that may contain metacharacters.

		Bob Lenk
		hplabs!hpfcla!rml
		rml%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com