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Re: Question on grep 2.3-5 for potato



On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:02:48 -0400, Chris Gorman <chrisg@corel.com> wrote:
>I was wondering if grep/fgrep/egrep are meant to be seperate programs
>or, hard links to one binary?  If I take a long listing of the *ep files
>in /bin, they are all 47616 bytes, but they all only have one file
>link.  Do you know if they are supposed to be one binary, and the
>functionality of the grep you use gets determined by the argv[0] value,
>or are my binaries messed up?

Similar, but not identical.

	zblaxell@lain:~$ ls !$ -l
	ls /bin/*grep* -l
	  48 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        47616 Sep  7 20:17 /bin/egrep*
	  48 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        47616 Sep  7 20:17 /bin/fgrep*
	  48 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        47616 Sep  7 20:17 /bin/grep*

They're the same size...

zblaxell@lain:~$ md5sum /bin/*grep*
8e6f9bb0b61626a5dcfc33e8716a67ff  /bin/egrep
07e56b8a1a038f8c77a43a4c5926e7d4  /bin/fgrep
d5a2cdbfd37db3ab7d69b7ce1ba2a4a7  /bin/grep

....but with obviously different contents.

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