acute;</SAMP>
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<DT><SAMP>`--fixed-strings&acute;</SAMP>
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Specify that <VAR>pattern</VAR> is a set of newline-separated strings.

<DT><SAMP>`-e <VAR>pattern</VAR>&acute;</SAMP>
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<DT><SAMP>`--regexp=<VAR>pattern</VAR>&acute;</SAMP>
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Use <VAR>pattern</VAR> as a regular expression.

<DT><SAMP>`-f <VAR>file</VAR>&acute;</SAMP>
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<DT><SAMP>`--file=<VAR>file</VAR>&acute;</SAMP>
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