Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!noao!arizona!naucse!sbw From: sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Why fgrep? Message-ID: <1050@naucse.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 17:52:19 GMT Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Lines: 14 In every machine I've played with, fgrep has never performed better than plain old grep for any data I've given it (and on some machines, it is *considerably* slower). Is there ever a situation (these days) where fgrep is preferable to grep? About the only thing that remotely comes to my mind is that you don't have to worry quite so much about escaping metacharacters, but I always quote literal strings anyway. Just curious. -- Steve Wampler {....!arizona!naucse!sbw}