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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Getting a 'grep' on myself
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Date: 25 Jan 91 20:52:30 GMT
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In article <AFOIANI.91Jan25105849@dante.nmsu.edu> afoiani@nmsu.edu (Anthony "Tkil" Foiani) writes:
>The real 'question' then, is why did egrep fail while grep works?

According to my manual (SunOS 4.0.3):

     egrep accepts regular expressions  of  the  same  sort  grep
     does,  except  for  \(, \), \n, \<, \>, \{, and \}, ...
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