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[Daniel R. Levy]

tim at cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) <103 at cithep.UucP>:

>text files.  Grep UNIX | wc on a MacWrite file, for example, would not
>be very likely to find the number of occurences of the word "UNIX".

It is also not guaranteed to do so on a Unix text file either.  It is left to
an exercise to the reader how to implement this as a pipeline.
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