[Q] fuzzy grep?

[Jim Van Zandt]

Robert Luoma <luoma at smectic.elsie.brandeis.edu> writes:
>I need what could be described as a fuzzy grep.

You need agrep:

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Title: agrep
Version: 2.04
Description: Search for approximations of strings in text
Keywords: grep search fussy-search
Author: sw at cs.arizona.edu (sw at cs.arizona.edu or udi at cs.arizona.edu)
Maintained-by: sw at cs.arizona.edu
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/text
        62351 agrep-2.04.tar.Z
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/agrep
        62351 agrep-2.04.tar.Z
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                     - Jim Van Zandt