egrep on the 3b1 is weird!
Tom Tkacik
tkacik at rphroy.ph.gmr.com
Sat Mar 23 05:33:11 AEST 1991
In article <GUEST.91Mar22115440 at geech.ai.mit.edu>, guest at geech.ai.mit.edu (Guest Account) writes:
|> Since without any kind of quoting or special chars a regular
|> expression is 1 character:
|> egrep 'foo|bar'
|> matches lines containing fooar and fobar. That's why you need to use
|> parentheses. You have to read the manual page for ed(1) to get the
|> rest of the story on regular expressions. To quote the grep man page:
Sorry, try again. Concatenation has higher precedence than '|'.
egrep 'foo|bar' will match either foo or bar, not fobar nor fooar.
egrep works like that here at work. I have not yet tried it at home. I will.
If it works as Kris A. Kugel says, then it must be busted.
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Tom Tkacik tkacik at clyde.cs.gmr.com
GM Research Labs tkacik at kyzyl.mi.org
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