[Q] fuzzy grep?

[gary at mc.com (Gary Von Colln)]

> From: Robert Luoma <luoma at smectic.elsie.brandeis.edu>
> Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 15:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> I need what could be described as a fuzzy grep.
> I need a pattern matcher, but it needs to make
> allowances for exchanges of characters, missing, incorrect,
> and extra characters and, if possible, give
> a list of likely candidates.  Does anyone know of
> a free/shareware tool like this for Linux?
> 

The agrep program is described in Byte Mag, Nov 92.  According to that
article, the code is available via anonymous ftp from cs.arizona.edu.