Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/29/09:32:03
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> I agree on that but comparing the use of grep alone and grep inside of the
> editor makes grep so see like a monster. The shell is to cover the
> 95% of the grep use: Search in your files. And here the difference
> is huge!
Sorry, I don't understand this. What huge difference are you talking
about here?
> Don't you use EMACs when searching in a set of files to jump directly to the
> line? Don't you think that this is the most important part?
Mostly, yes, but not always. For example, I almost always use `fgrep'
instead of `grep', because it is faster if you look for fixed
strings. Sometimes I need to find only hits that are words (not
substrings), so I use the -w switch. And there are other examples.
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