From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 4 16: 6:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.trit.org (bazooka.trit.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D3D37B416 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:06:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by bazooka.trit.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD2DA4034; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bazooka (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bazooka.trit.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96493C137; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:06:22 +0000 (UTC) To: Paul Robinson Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fgrep - a quirky question for you all In-Reply-To: <20011030130007.D38696@jake.akitanet.co.uk>; from paul@akita.co.uk on "Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:00:07 +0000" Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 00:06:17 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20011105000622.AD2DA4034@bazooka.trit.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul Robinson 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". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message