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On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Simon Waters wrote:
On 05/08/12 18:29, Gordon Henderson wrote:however, from the 'more than one way to do it' department: history | fgrep 'dd\b'Doesn't work here - misses my cryptic "a dd a" line in my history, but: history | grep '\bdd\b' does, or was that one for Paul to generalize. I clearly don't grok what fgrep does differently to grep, but then it is deprecated ;)
Ugh. I typed that rather than copy&paste - I have fgrep hard-wired into me. I really did mean grep!!!
Way back fgrep really was faster than grep, but I don't think that's true anymore.
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