Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:10:17 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: grep(1) manpage Message-ID: <20021202220938.D36900-100000@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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Hello,
The grep(1) manpage (-STABLE, might apply to -CURRENT) reads as follows:
NAME
grep, egrep, fgrep, zgrep - print lines matching a pattern
<...snip...>
In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are
available. egrep is the same as grep -E. fgrep is the
same as grep -F. zgrep is the same as grep -Z.
The grep command has four flavors, three of which are variants. Doing an
'ls -loi' on each of the binaries will reveal that they share the same
inode:
10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/grep
10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/egrep
10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/fgrep
10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/zgrep
Regards,
> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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