Ignore lists [was: Keeping the cruft out ...]

[Eric Wood]

Bill McClain wrote:
>> Greg McCann wrote, in small part:
>
>>> 1.  It does not do whole-word matching.
>
> grep has a -w word-match switch which works with -f and -v. Does that
> help?

With grep, one problem with the -w word-match is that is renders a -i ignore
case useless.  The word-match must still match the case of the
search-string.

Now, fgrep's word-match ignore's case if you use the -i .  So "hoooray" for
fgrep.

But, fgrep can't handle this senerio when you have spaces strings when
coming from a -f pattern-file.  So "boooo" for fgrep.

I found this out the hard way....
-Eric Wood