From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:kalash
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizar
Title: Re: grep - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ucbcad.867
Posted: Tue Mar 15 21:40:25 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 21:33:21 1983

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ucbcad!kalash    Mar 15 21:40:00 1983

	I recall seeing timing stats once that showed egrep is almost
always faster than either grep or fgrep. About the only thing I use
fgrep for is the -x option, and when I am searching for *'s. Grep has
the -w feature which is often nice, but in every day use egrep wins
for me.

			Joe Kalash