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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  the many greps
Message-ID: <991@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 09:16:19 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.991
Posted: Tue Nov 15 09:16:19 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Nov-83 02:03:28 EST
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The other day, I tried
	egrep '^.......?.?.?.?.?$'
after a couple of minutes (!) it told me "regular expression too big"!?!?

Anybody know why this is?  I finally did
	egrep '......' | egrep -v '............'

=Spencer