On 16-Sep-99, 10:02 (CDT), Chris Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > 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?
I just looked into this -- they are all the same size, but a diff shows that they are different. A check into the changelog.Debian shows that they no longer check argv[0], and need to be seperate programs. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
