Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!mcnabb From: mcnabb@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: is grep broken (4.2) - (nf) Message-ID: <19300022@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 09:24:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.19300022 Posted: Fri Aug 17 09:24:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:25:03 EDT References: <222@imsvax.UUCP> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:imsvax:-22200:uiucdcsb:19300022:000:208 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!mcnabb Aug 17 08:24:00 1984 #R:imsvax:-22200:uiucdcsb:19300022:000:208 uiucdcsb!mcnabb Aug 17 08:24:00 1984 Remember, grep looks for a pattern, not for words. It delivers any line containing that pattern (the whole line). The fact that /usr/dict/words is arranged one word per line probably helped to confuse this.