From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:kalash Newsgroups: net.unix-wizar Title: Re: grep - (nf) Article-I.D.: ucbcad.873 Posted: Wed Mar 16 02:08:05 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 23:20:25 1983 #R:floyd:-130400:ucbcad:18600004:000:292 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