[KLUG Members] Re: grep, egrep, fgrep

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:31:25AM -0400, Adam Williams was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> > Can anyone explain why there are still three different greps?
> 
> Because geeks are a ornery, contrary, and short-sighted lot?

Or because the corporate owners of the code wouldn't let it be extended?
Why blame the geeks?

As far as I'm concerned, this is one reason why Linux/*BSD is
progressing more rapidly than *nix ever did. When application
programmers need a feature in the kernel (e.g., dentry) or in the OS
(hotplug) they can add it and see if it garners any general acclaim. You
couldn't do that on a lot of the proprietary Unices.

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