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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: what should egrep '|root' /etc/passwd print? (Everything)
Summary: gnu-egrep started all this
Keywords: regular-expressions, egrep, gnu-egrep
Message-ID: <44416@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 16 Sep 88 22:09:42 GMT
References: <44414@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <8492@smoke.ARPA> <855@yunexus.UUCP>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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> In any case, Rick should probably use jaw-improved-gnu-egrep for
> correct results.


This all started becuase I WAS using the gnu-egrep and it broke
on of my shellscripts (The news "checkgroups" script). Admittedly,
the shellscript could have been better written, but it was an
incompatible behavior and I wasn't really sure which was 'right'

--rick