[comp.unix.questions] fgrep

andrew@alice.UUCP (05/04/88)

I am looking for typical or ``representative'' uses of fgrep.
If you have any, please send the pattern (preferably) or a description
of the pattern to research!andrew.

Andrew Hume
AT&T Bell Labs
(201) 582-6262
research!andrew  andrew@research.att.com

andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) (05/15/89)

a good efficency hack for fgrep is to use a jump table
indexed by the input character for the root node in the
trie of keywords. I know steve tjiang did this at Bell Labs
in 1984; does anyone know of any other people who did this
or similar? please mail research!andrew or andrew@research.att.com