Fwd: Re: grep command not working as expected

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006, Stephen Allen wrote:
>A simple grep command, 'grep -vf patternfile inputfile' works on Linux, 
>but the same command doesn't work on FreeBSD-6.1.
>
>To make it work I found I had to use -F to force the interpretation of 
>fixed-strings.  I don't know why it made a difference from Linux, and 
>nothing in the man page appears to mention why.

Traditionally one uses ``fgrep'' for that type of matching.

Bill
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