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From: afoiani@nmsu.edu (Anthony "Tkil" Foiani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Getting a 'grep' on myself
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Date: 25 Jan 91 17:58:49 GMT
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I've a question for unix gurus.  I was creating a mail digest, and
was using 79 '=' signs as delimiters.  I then tried to use egrep to
knock it apart, with the command
  % egrep '^=\{79\}$' my-mail-digest
which failed pretty violently to find any separaters.  I eventually
got around to trying 
  % grep '^=\{79\}$' my-mail-digest
which worked as expected.

The real 'question' then, is why did egrep fail while grep works?

TiA,
Tony
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Tony Foiani  a.k.a. Tkil  (afoiani@nmsu.edu) or (mcsajf@nmsuvm1.bitnet)
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