Why fgrep?

[Paul Blumstein]

In article <9116 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
+In article <1050 at naucse.UUCP> sbw at naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
+>Is there ever a situation (these days) where fgrep is
+>preferable to grep?
+
+Yes,
+	fgrep 'word1
+	word2
+	...
+	wordn' files ...
+

Make that:
	fgrep 'word1\
	word2\
	...
	wordn' file1 ...

You need that \ to tell the shell that more is coming (csh, anyway).
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