Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:04:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199610152304.TAA14292@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <9610151247.AA02678@quasar.bloomberg.com > (kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com) Subject: Re: GREP > I won't repeat the descriptions but GREP stands for: > "Global Regular Expression Print" > EGREP: Extended Global Regular Expression Print > FGREP: Fast Global Regular Expression Print Sorry, *File* Global Regular Expression Print. fgrep accepts a file of expressions to search for. egrep is, traditionally, the fastest of the three, with fgrep being the slowest.