Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why fgrep? Message-ID: <9116@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 9 Dec 88 07:36:57 GMT References: <1050@naucse.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 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 ... Be advised that work is underway at Bell Labs to merge all the greps into a single utility.