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On 07/08/12 11:18, Gordon Henderson wrote: > 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. > > Gordon > It is good that there are several solutions to the same problem, shows the power of unix type systems in general. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq