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From: kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: egrep on the 3b1 is weird!
Keywords: egrep unix-pc 3b1
Message-ID: <1268@hico2.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 91 19:16:16 GMT
Organization: High Country Software
Lines: 13

Am I confused, or does egrep on the 3b1
handle multiple regular expressions incorrectly?

	egrep 'foo|bar'

seems to match '[fb][oa][or]' patterns,
instead of what I wanted (matching lines with "foo" or "bar")

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