Quoting Kjetil Torgrim Homme:
> most people these days use GNU grep ("the fastest grep in the West", as
> the slogan goes):
> $ ls -l /bin/egrep /bin/fgrep
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-08-11 05:53 /bin/egrep -> grep
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-08-11 05:53 /bin/fgrep -> grep
Sure, and fgrep is the same as grep -F. But matching fixed strings is
usually faster than matching regexes (depending on CPU and IO speed).
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