Fgrep need not be slow (was Re: Fast file scan)

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <2440 at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>In article <3790 at awdprime.UUCP> tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
>>Fgrep means Fixed, egrep means Exponential (like in Exponentially faster)!
>As has been mentioned before, it depends on your implementation: not
>all fgreps are slow.

I confess, my statement was based just on SCO XENIX although I have been
led to believe than SysV also acted this way.  I just tried two AIX's.
AIX V2.2.1 fgrep is only slightly slower than egrep, and AIX V3.1 fgrep
is slightly faster than egrep!

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