Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <878 at taniwha.UUCP> paul at taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
>>Also, quite interestingly, I've discovered that egrep seems to be _much_
>>slower than grep at doing this.
>
>this is why there are 3 greps fgrep is faster than grep is faster than egrep,

Not true.  For small jobs, grep is sometimes the fastest of the lot,
competing with egrep, and fgrep is *dead last*.  For big jobs, egrep is
usually fastest *unless* you are searching for a bunch of fixed strings,
in which case fgrep wins.

The slow-egrep problem originally discussed here is a bug, not a feature.
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