Sometime around Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:32:10 +0200, it may be that Kjetil
Torgrim Homme wrote:
> most people these days use GNU grep ("the fastest grep in the West",
> as the slogan goes):

It's a bad idea to assume the use of GNU grep :-

% ls -l /bin/[ef]grep
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin          26K Jan 23  2005 /bin/egrep
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin          18K Dec 16  2005 /bin/fgrep

Particularly if GNU grep optimises your grep for you anyway ... so
there's no penalty for using the 'right' grep.

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