Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:47:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: subdirectories (was: ANNOUNCE: Grep 2.1 uploaded)
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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.