in reply to Re^2: Removing all none 8 letter words from the dict/words file
in thread Removing all non 8 letter words from the dict/words file

actually, on my linux box, grep is GNU grep, and egrep is a shell wrapper for grep: 
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -E ${1+"$@"}

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Re^4: Removing all none 8 letter words from the dict/words file
by QM (Parson) on Apr 09, 2006 at 23:47 UTC
    So you don't have to worry about the metacharacter differences between grep and egrep. I can't remember what the differences are exactly, but for some reason I recall that grep was slightly less cumbersome on the jobs I did most often.

    On the other hand, you have to wonder if GNU grep is the same as the grep that came before, and suffers from the same slowdowns. Probably not ;)

    -QM
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