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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: egrep won't pick fields
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Date: 13 Jun 88 22:52:24 GMT
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> grep '^........foo' 
> picks up any line which has `foo' in columns 9-11..

True for grep, but egrep will say "Regular expression too long" if
there are six or more periods.  I hope this problem goes away with gre.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]