README revision 53451
1This is GNU grep 2.0, the "fastest grep in the west" (we hope). All 2bugs reported in previous releases have been fixed. Many exciting new 3bugs have probably been introduced in this major revision. 4 5GNU grep is provided "as is" with no warranty. The exact terms 6under which you may use and (re)distribute this program are detailed 7in the GNU General Public License, in the file COPYING. 8 9GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about 10twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper 11search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being 12considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to 13look at every character. The result is typically many times faster 14than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing 15will run more slowly, however.) 16 17See the file AUTHORS for a list of authors and other contributors. 18 19See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. 20 21See the file MANIFEST for a list of files in this distribution. 22 23See the file NEWS for a description of major changes in this release. 24 25See the file PROJECTS if you want to be mentioned in AUTHORS. 26 27Send bug reports to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. Be sure to 28include the word "grep" in your Subject: header field. 29