[Q] fuzzy grep?

[pbreton at cs.umb.edu (Peter Breton)]

> There is a program called "agrep" which does much of what you want.
> You can find it via an archie lookup, I don't know where it is
> located.  It allows you to specify the fuzziness of the grep.  I know
> it will look for dropped, added, and possibly even swapped characters.

It is at cs.arizona.edu. An entire search engine called "glimpse" was
built around agrep... check that out also if you are interested. There 
was a USENIX paper on glimpse that is available from the same site.

			Peter

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