>>>>> "Martin" == Martin A Brown <[email protected]> writes:
Martin> Oh, and yes, fgrep is just a another variant of grep for handling Martin> fixed strings. This can be noticeably faster on large samples of Martin> input. In a former lifetime, yes. But now with Boyer-Moore and other optimizations, grep can actually beat fgrep, except for very large sets of fixed strings. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
