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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: what should egrep '|root' /etc/passwd print?
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Date: 14 Sep 88 03:00:41 GMT
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> What should 
> 	egrep '|root' /etc/passwd
> print? (Presume you have one and only one line containing the string
> root in /etc/passwd).
> 
> On BSD systems, it prints the single line containing root. On
> System 5 systems it prints EVERY line.

I tried it on a 3B2 running S5R3.1 here, and it printed only the line
containing "root".  Perhaps somebody "improved" the "egrep" on the S5 system in
question?