Fwd: Re: grep command not working as expected

From: Stephen Allen <freebsduk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:44:22 +0100

A simple grep command, 'grep -vf patternfile inputfile' works on Linux, but the same command doesn't work on FreeBSD-6.1.

To make it work I found I had to use -F to force the interpretation of fixed-strings. I don't know why it made a difference from Linux, and nothing in the man page appears to mention why.

Kind regards,
Stephen Allen
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