From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:tut
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: *grep
Article-I.D.: populi.534
Posted: Mon Mar 21 15:20:21 1983
Received: Fri Mar 25 00:15:15 1983

Let's get rid of fgrep.  If you want to look for multiple
patterns you can always do

	egrep "word1|word2|word3|word4" 

rather than having a pattern file.  There are too many
programmers who actually believe the manual page and use
fgrep, erroneously thinking it's faster.

I'm counting on the USG to delete fgrep before System 6
comes out!

Bill Tuthill
ucbvax!g:tut