FGREP(1)             INTERACTIVE UNIX System             FGREP(1)



          NAME
               fgrep - search a file for a character string

          SYNOPSIS
               fgrep [options] string [file ...]

          DESCRIPTION
               The fgrep (fast grep) command searches files for a character
               string and prints all lines that contain that string.  fgrep
               is different from grep(1) and egrep(1) because it searches
               for a string, instead of searching for a pattern that
               matches an expression.  It uses a fast and compact algo-
               rithm.

               The characters $, *, [, ^, |, (, ), and \ are interpreted
               literally by fgrep, that is, fgrep does not recognize full
               regular expressions as does egrep.  Since these characters
               have special meaning to the shell, it is safest to enclose
               the entire string in single quotes '...'.

               If no files are specified, fgrep assumes standard input.
               Normally, each line found is copied to the standard output.
               The file name is printed before each line found if there is
               more than one input file.

               Command line options are:

               -b    Precede each line by the block number on which it was
                     found.  This can be useful in locating block numbers
                     by context (first block is 0).
               -c    Print only a count of the lines that contain the pat-
                     tern.
               -i    Ignore upper/lower case distinction during comparis-
                     ons.
               -l    Print the names of files with matching lines once,
                     separated by new-lines.  Does not repeat the names of
                     files when the pattern is found more than once.
               -n    Precede each line by its line number in the file
                     (first line is 1).
               -v    Print all lines except those that contain the pattern.
               -x    Print only lines matched entirely.
               -e special_string
                     Search for a special string (string begins with a -).
               -f file
                     Take the list of strings from file.
               -h    Prevents the name of the file containing the matching
                     line from being appended to that line. Used when
                     searching multiple files.

          SEE ALSO
               ed(1), egrep(1), grep(1), sed(1), sh(1).

          DIAGNOSTICS


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               Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for
               syntax errors or inaccessible files (even if matches were
               found).

          BUGS
               Ideally there should be only one grep command, but there is
               not a single algorithm that spans a wide enough range of
               space-time tradeoffs.  Lines are limited to BUFSIZ charac-
               ters; longer lines are truncated.  BUFSIZ is defined in
               /usr/include/stdio.h, which is included as part of the basic
               software development set.












































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