Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 00:06:17 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fgrep - a quirky question for you all Message-ID: <20011105000622.AD2DA4034@bazooka.trit.org> In-Reply-To: <20011030130007.D38696@jake.akitanet.co.uk>; from paul@akita.co.uk on "Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:00:07 %2B0000"
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Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> wrote:
> What does this 'f' in fgrep stand for?
See grep(1). In the second paragraph, it says that "fgrep is the same
as grep -F"; when defining the -F option, it says:
-F, --fixed-strings
Interpret PATTERN as a list of fixed strings, sepa-
rated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.
which seems to imply that the 'F' stands for "[F]ixed strings".
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