Re: regular expression to kill Lines:

From: Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:33:40 -0600

>On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:58:43 -0600, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:

>There are three major variants of grep, controlled by the
>following options.
>-G Interpret pattern as a basic regular expression
> (see below). This is the default.
>-E Interpret pattern as an extended regular expression
> (see below).
>-F Interpret pattern as a list of fixed strings, sepa-
> rated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.
>In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are
>available. Egrep is similiar (but not identical) to
>grep -E, and is compatible with the historical Unix egrep.
>Fgrep is the same as grep -F.

This is interersting, I thought egrep was equivalent to grep -E.

Thanks!

>BTW: next release of VSoup will also allow minimum limit of article
> length...

Good.

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