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by teamhappy 4044 days ago
You probably want fgrep.
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laumars 4044 days ago
fgrep / grep -F only really comes into it's own if you have regular expression patterns that need to be matched as plain strings. "TODO" is purely alpha characters so regular grep is fine.
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teamhappy 4044 days ago
Did not know that. Thank you.
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unwind 4044 days ago
What did you think regular grep did, then?
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