From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: *grep Article-I.D.: utah-gr.739 Posted: Wed Mar 23 12:12:49 1983 Received: Thu Mar 24 21:55:46 1983 References: populi.534 Ah, but fgrep will handle MUCH larger patterns than egrep will. I've had egrep say 'pattern too large' (or whatever the message is) too many times to advocate getting rid of fgrep. What needs to change is the documentation! =Spencer