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From: guy@cbnewsc.att.com (guy.r.berentsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: egrep on the 3b1 is weird!
Summary: Works on my UPC at work (3.5)
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.212625.5349@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 21:26:25 GMT
References: <1268@hico2.UUCP> <8783@gollum.twg.com> <1311@hico2.UUCP> <48545@rphroy.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> |> 	egrep 'foo|bar'
> |> matches lines containing fooar and fobar.  That's why you need to use
> 
> egrep 'foo|bar' will match either foo or bar, not fobar nor fooar.
> 

On my unix pc at work (running 3.5) egrep 'foo|bar' matches foo or bar
(of course it also matches "fobar" and "fooar" since 
the later contains the string "foo" and the former 
contains the string "bar")