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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Guenter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep and regular expressions
Message-ID: <63720027@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:35:42 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.182424.25176@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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On my HP9000/375, running ksh under HP-UX 7.0, I type

egrep 'abc|xyz' file

to catch all lines in "file" that contain either "abc" or "xyz".  The secret
is to use egrep ("extended grep"), it does not work with grep.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com