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Re: Grep

> 
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a memory friendly version of grep floating 
> about anywhere. I usually run MTOS, with Speedo, giving me about 2 
> megs to play with (maybe a bit less). Yesterday I could have really 
> done with grepping some files, but the version I have (agrep) 
> complained about the amount of memory - even if I dumped everything 
> except Toswin (I even dumped the desktop).

I can't remember when I last used grep. 1984 or 1985, I think. I use fgrep
for all my frequent grepping. Nice and fast, low memory usage. No fancy
regexps.

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